Field and Woodland Plants

It will be seen, from the nature of these movements, that the revolving stem is far more likely to come in contact with erect, rather than with horizontal supports, and observat...

Some of our trees present a glorious aspect during the autumn months, displaying conspicuous and more or less brightly-coloured fruits in combination with the varied autumn tint...

Coming now to the Crucifers, we have first to note the Field Pennycress (_Thlaspi arvense_), which may be recognised at once by reference to our illustration. It is an erect, sm...

The Sycamore, also called the Great Maple and the False Plane (_Acer pseudo-platanus_--order _Aceraceæ_), although not really a British tree, has probably found a home here for...

Their stems are solid, usually more or less triangular, not swollen at the nodes as in grasses; and the sheaths of the leaves which surround the stems are not split. The flowers...

65. LORANTHACEÆ.--A green, parasitic, much branched shrub, with opposite, simple, entire leaves; inconspicuous, dioecious flowers; and whitish viscid berries. Sepals and stamens...

Continuing our list of the numerous wayside flowers of the summer months, we take first the Rampion Bellflower or Ramps (_Campanula Rapunculus_), of the order _Campanulaceæ_. Th...

Coming now to the order _Salicaceæ_, we have to deal with the Poplars, of which we have several species, all more or less common, and largely planted in cultivated ground. Our f...

One of the most characteristic flowers of the chalk is the pretty Rock Rose (_Helianthemum vulgare_--order _Cistaceæ_), which is often so abundant that it completely covers larg...

The seed is a plant in embryo. It consists of a young root, a bud, and one or two seed-leaves or cotyledons. Some seeds contain nothing but the parts just named, and when this i...

2. Pale-flowered Persicaria (_P. lapathifolium_).--Very similar to the Spotted Persicaria, and sometimes regarded as a variety of that species; but it differs in that its leaves...

The same order includes the Sheep's-bit (_Jasione montana_), also known as the Sheep's Scabious. It certainly resembles a Scabious in general appearance (see Fig. 5 of Plate VI)...

The other, numbered 7 on Plate VIII, is the Yellow Oat Grass (_A. flavescens_), which grows to about the same height, and flowers at the same time. In this species the radical l...

The Rue-leaved or Three-fingered Saxifrage (_S. tridactylites_) is a small species, rarely exceeding four or five inches in height, common on walls in most parts of Britain, flo...

The Strawberry-leaved Cinquefoil or Barren Strawberry (_Potentilla Fragariastrum_) is very similar to the Wild Strawberry, with which it is often confused; but no difficulty wil...

It is interesting to note that these two flowers, which frequently grow together on the same waste ground, and consequently have to compete with one another in the general strug...

The most abundant species is undoubtedly the Common Red Poppy (_Papaver Rhæas_), which is to be found in almost every corn-field, as well as in other fields and waste places in...

In damp woods we commonly meet with the tall, stout, branching Angelica (_Angelica sylvestris_) of the same order (_Umbelliferæ_), with a thick, furrowed stem, two to four feet...

The Blue Marsh Vetchling or Marsh Pea (_Lathyrus palustris_--order _Leguminosæ_) is occasionally to be met with in boggy places, flowering from June to August. It is a smooth pl...

The Wild Carrot (_Daucus Carota_) of the same order is also common in pastures. It is an erect plant, with a tap root, and a branching stem from one to two feet high. The lower...

Few of the spring bog-flowers are more interesting than the pretty little Sundews (_Drosera_), so remarkable on account of their carnivorous nature. A description of the three B...

Various modifications of these indehiscent fruits are to be met with; thus, the blackberry is not really a berry, but a cluster of little drupes formed from a single pistil of m...

We conclude this chapter with a description of the common Teasel (_Dipsacus sylvestris_) of the order _Dipsaceæ_. This is really a very graceful plant, rarely less than three or...

The plants to which we refer are often spoken of as insectivorous species; but although in nearly all cases the animal food consists almost entirely of insects, it is not entire...

The beginner will often find it difficult, and sometimes quite impossible, to identify some of the flowers seen or gathered during a country ramble; and he will hardly be surpri...

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(Most of the following flowers bloom during the summer, and have been included in foregoing lists; but these, together with the few new species named, may be seen in flower duri...

_Tragopogon pratensis_, 177 _Helminthia echioides_, 177 _Picris hieracioides_, 178 _Leontodon hirtus_, 266 " _hispidus_, 222 " _autumnalis_, 223 _Lactuca virosa_, 178 " _Scariol...