Wayside and woodland blossoms

It is in our experience that though many townsmen think they know the Beech there are comparatively few of them that cannot be deceived into accepting the Hornbeam as _Fagus syl...

Several species of Lime may be met in woods and plantations, but respecting the right of each to be called indigenous there is a good deal of difference of opinion among authori...

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There are nearly forty British species of Orchideæ, divided into sixteen genera; and in the space at our disposal it is impossible to give anything like an adequate account of t...

In all moist meadows and swampy places, from April to June, the eye is pleased with a multitude of waving flowers which in the aggregate look white, but at close quarters are se...

With the appearance of the delicately fragrant Bindweed in our fields the season for summer flowers may be said to have fairly set in. Its grace of form and colour makes it a ge...

The genus to which this plant belongs consists of thorough weeds. Their habitat is waste places, usually where the soil is made up of man’s refuse. The plants are fairly uniform...

It seems quite natural to use the two common names of this beautiful shrub at different times. In the spring, before a leaf has unrolled upon the spine-tipped spurs of its soot-...

I. Smooth Cat’s-ear (_H. glabra_). An annual plant, found chiefly in dry fields on gravelly soil, but not nearly so commonly as _radicata_. Its leaves are broader, egg-shaped, a...

We have already given several examples of Composite flowers, and an examination of the Ox-eye Daisy would quickly convince the reader that he has another Composite under conside...

The Cross-leaved Heath (_E. tetralix_), with downy stems and leaves; the leaves in whorls of four, and fringed with hairs, margins rolled under as in _cinerea_. Flowers pale-ros...

These are among the despised of our wild-flowers, weeds among weeds. They are considered of interest only to the keeper of cage-birds, by whose pets the ripe fruit-stalks are mu...

Trailing among the grass of the copse and hedgebank the Ground Ivy is one of the earliest of flowers to appear in spring. It has not the remotest relationship to the real ivy (_...

The Vetches are Leguminous plants, and the structure of the flowers is therefore very similar to those just described. The Vetches are chiefly climbing plants, and have pinnate...

=THE FLOWERING PLANTS, GRASSES, SEDGES AND FERNS OF GREAT BRITAIN=, and their Allies, the Club-Mosses, Pepperworts and Horsetails. By ANNE PRATT. New Edition, containing 318 Pla...