232 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



3. Celandine 



Chelidonium maj'us ("The swallow, because its flowers ap- 

 pear with the swallows." — Gray). — Family, Poppy. Color, 

 yellow. Leaves, divided, cut, or toothed, light green, hairy. 

 Time, spring and summer. Around dwellings. 



Sepals, 2, soon falling. Petals, 4. Stamens, many. Style, 

 prominent. Pod, 2-valved, long, thin, on slender stalks. 

 Valves splitting from below and opening upward. Stigmas, 2. 

 I to 2 feet high. 



This is a small-flowered, imported plant found around country 

 gardens. It takes root easily in stone-walls or sterile soil, and 

 blossoms cheerily beside the garden-paths. The stems are full 

 of a yellowish acid juice. Flowers in a small umbel. 



" Long as there's a sun that sets, 

 Primroses will have their glory ; 



Long as there are violets. 



They will have a place in story ; 



There's a flower that shall be mine — 

 'Tis the little celandine." — Wordsworth. 



4. Hedge-mustard 



Sisymbrium officinale. — Family, Mustard. Color, pale yel- 

 low. Leaves, sharply cut, the incised parts turning backward, 

 alternate. Time, all summer. 



A plant growing 2 or 3 feet high, much branched. Naturalized 

 from Europe. 



5. White Mustard 



Brassica (or Sinapis) alba. — Family, Mustard. Color, yel- 

 low. Leaves, with petioles, lyrate, variously cut, the terminal 

 lobe round and large. Time, summer. 



Flowers, large petalled. The common name is taken from 

 the pale color of the seed. Cultivated for table use, it has 



