Some Short Notes 
DESIGNED TO ASSIST THE READER IN 
IDENTIFYING THE FLOWERS 
ILLUSTRATED IN THIS VOLUME, 
By ADAM L. GOWANS, M.A. 
Water Crowfoot (Frontispiece) — In our photograph the 
beholder looks down upon one of the ponds in which this easily 
distinguishable and beautiful flower with its floating leaves is 
found. 
Great Spear-wort (Page 6) — Another aquatic plant. Its spear- 
like leaf, tall, hollow stem, and large, bright, yellow flower, two 
inches in diameter, resembling a gigantic buttercup, cannot be 
mistaken. The flower of the much smaller and commoner Lesser 
Spear-wort is about the size of a buttercup, from which its undivided 
leaf easily distinguishes it. 
Upright Meadow Crowfoot or Buttercup, and Creeping 
Crowfoot (Pages 7 and 8) — There are several common species of 
crowfoot, all popularly known as ‘ buttercups.’ The Creeping 
Buttercup may be distinguished by its long runners, Goldieiocks 
by its bent-back calyx, and the Bulbous Crowfoot by its bulb- 
like root. 
The Marsh Marigold (Page 9) is found only in wet places and 
is easily identified by its large golden-yellow flowers and roundish 
leaves shown in the photograph. 
The Yellow Water-lily and White Water-lily (Pages 10 
and 11) cannot be mistaken. A pond or lake where these immense 
flowers can be seen in all their glory is worth going miles to look at. 
Water-cress (Page 12)— -Found in water-courses. Should be 
identified without difficulty from the illustration. See the leaf 
{t.g.y the good specimen in the centre of the photograph) and 
the long wire-like pod. 
The Lady’s Smock (Page 13), Scurvy-grass (Page 15), 
and Heartsease (Page 16) are unmistakable. 
The Charlock or W^ild Mustard (Page 14), with its yellow 
flower, is so common in corn-fields that it is well-known to 
every one. 
The rose-coloured Ragged Robin (Page 17) and Red Campion 
(Page 18) are often confused, but the tattered appearance of the 
former makes it easily distinguished on the slightest comparison of 
the two. 
The fine photograph of the Greater Stitchwort (Page 19) 
should leave no doubt as to the flower it represents. The Lesser 
Stitchwort is very like it, but the petals are much more deeply 
cleft, and it is, therefore, more star-like in appearance. 
