WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
everyone who owns a pet canary has fed it sprigs of 
the buds and flowers of the Chickweed. It is one of 
the very commonest of our dooryard neighbours. Tiny 
and insignificant to be sure, but this Speedwell is 
always at home, twelve months of the year. Its slender, 
leafy, branching stem spreads over the ground in tufts. 
It is green and smooth, excepting a line of very fine 
hairs along one side. The small, oval, pointed leaves 
have a smooth surface and an entire margin. They 
grow in pairs and the lower ones are short stemmed. 
Five very deeply notched white petals appear at first 
sight to be a double quantity of very narrow ones. ‘The 
five parts of the green calyx are much larger and extend 
considerably beyond the petals. The stamens are very 
fine but noticeable. ‘The Chickweed’s flowers do not 
open fully on cloudy days. It is found almost every- 
where throughout the northern hemisphere in meadows, 
and woods, and waste places generally. 
FIELD CHICKWEED 
Cerdstium arvénse. Pink Family. 
A densely tufted perennial, more or less erect in 
growth, and often covered with minute hairs. It is 
sparingly branched and grows from four to ten inches 
high. The starry white flowers are much larger than 
those of the two preceding species, and have ten 
yellowish stamens. They are loosely clustered, and 
the five petals are nicked at the apex into two rounding 
lobes. The calyx is less than half the length of the 
petals. The leaves are small and grass-like and occur 
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