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Meadow Crane's*bill (Page 20) — There are always two flowers 
on each peduncle of this handsome plant (see the buds in pairs). 
Here the companion-blossom has faded. This plant is very like 
the Wood Crane’s-bill, but the diameter of the flower of the 
latter is about % inch as compared with inch in the case of the 
former ; the pedicels of the latter are erect, of the former deflexed. 
Herb- Robert (Page 21) — The photograph of this pretty little 
plant (flower % inch diameter, two on each peduncle) is a very clear 
one, and with careful study of the shape of the leaf, etc., it may be 
distinguished with certainty from other plants which resemble it, 
and which will be illustrated in later volumes. 
Black Medick (Page 22) — This tiny little plant, with its small 
heads of yellow pea-shaped flowers, each only Yq inch in diameter, 
is extremely like another very common flower, the Lesser Yellow 
Trefoil. The fruit is a certain means of identification ; in the 
Medick the pod is kidney-shaped, and ripens quite outside the 
calyx, which envelops the pod of the Lesser Trefoil as it ripens. 
Loth plants are like the Hop Trefoil (Page 23) which has paler 
flowers in larger heads ; the three may sometimes be found growing 
together, and if they are ^ carefully compared, little^ points of 
difference will be found which make them easily distinguishable 
thereafter. 
The pea-shaped yellow flowers of the Bird’s-foot Trefoil (Page 
24), Greater Bird’s-foot Trefoil (Page 25), and Meadow Vetch- 
ling (Page 27) are very familiar objects in the country. The 
greater trefoil is generally a larger plant, and more erect than the 
lesser. The two species can be distinguished by the two upper teeth 
of the calyx ; in the greater trefoil they diverge, in the lesser they 
converge. ^ The yetchling, so like the former to a careless obseper, 
is easily distinguished by its leaves and tendrils, and by the differ- 
ent arrangement of the flowers in the heads (see the left hand corners 
of plates on pages 25 and 27). 
The beautiful photographs of the Tufted Vetch (Page 26), 
clinging by its tendrils to a rose-bush, the Meadow-sweet (Page 
28), the Common Avens (page 29), the Wild Strawberry 
(Page 30), the Marsh Cinquefoil (Page 31), and the Silverweed 
(Page 33), are so clear that no further description is necessary. 
The Tormentil (Page 32 (with its yellow flower of four (some- 
times five) petals and pretty leaf is very common on dry pasture 
land. The Common Lady’s Mantle (Page 34) is distinguished 
with certainty by its leaf from the other two species of Lady’s 
Mantle. 
The varieties of the Wild Rose are so numerous that they require 
special study to distinguish them. Of the Dog Rose (Page 35) 
alone. Hooker names 29 varieties. 
The Wood Sanicle (Page 36) has so characteristic an appearance 
that it is easily recognised ; most of the umbelliferae, however, are 
diflBcult. The Cow-Parsnip (Page 38) should be distinguished by 
its great size and rankness. Other plants resemble the Hemlock 
Water Drop wort (Page 37) to a greater or less extent, and careful 
note of the leaves, etc., is necessary. This plant is poisonous. 
The flowers of the different kinds of Bedstraw give them a charac- 
teristic stamp. The common Smooth Heath Bedstraw (Page 40) 
