10 WAYSIDE WEEDS. 



blue friends tlie sweet violetSj for^ except the fra- 

 grant wallflower, they are the only scented blossoms 

 in our bundle. Add to these a scarlet lychnis ; one 

 of tbe brilliant white stitchworts, or, as they are 

 ' better named, starworts, from under the May hedge- 

 row, and with it its little sister the common chick- 

 weed, and the mouse-ear, like a hairy chickweed, 

 though it is not one ; lastly, put in a common way- 

 side geranium, and we have Handful No. 1, from 

 which we are to learn a whole heap of botanical lore. 

 Our paper is headed " Many-pieced, or many- 

 petaled flowers," Unbotanical people call the pieces 



Fig. 1. — Petal of common Poppy. 



of a flower " leaves ;" but as the same term is ap- 

 phed to the leaves of the plant generally, the pretty 

 term "petal" is more convenient, we therefore, for 

 the future, shall always speak of petals ; albeit, it 

 gives our first initiament into botanical terms. 

 Take all the flowers of our handful, or as many of 

 them as you have got, and look at these petals; 



