INTRODUCTION 



four truly British species, only one, //. ChanuEtislus, is at all 

 common. The prostrate growth, small stipijles, and green upper 

 surfaces of its leaves at once show us that it is to this species, the 

 Common Rock-Rose, that our specimen belongs. 



^Ve mav find a second example to test at no great distance. It 

 is an erect, herbaceous plant with smooth leaves and long racemes 



heli..^%the:.il"m CHAM.CCISTL'S 

 yCoDnnon Rock-Rose). 



ii 



kes£da luteol.a 

 {layers Rocket). 



of green flowers. Here again tne veins and stipules of the leaves 

 and the four sepals and petals, though the Ijtter are so cut up as 

 to be difficult to count, suggest a l3icotyledon. The numerous 

 st:imens fpring from a relativeh' large, fleshy'out rowth or "disk," 

 which is hypogynous, but by its one-sided development renders 

 the fiowi,r monosymmetric. The ovary is" distinctly superior, 

 springing from the top of this disk and is three-sided e.\tcrnally 



