No.

Botanical Name.

Common Name.

Season.

Situation.

Structure and Habit.

156

Nymphaea .

Water Lily .

June-Aug.

Lakes and / Streams

Sepals 4, greenish, handsome white flowers.

157

Nuphar . .

Yellow Lily .

June-Aug.

Sepals 5 or 6, yellow, smaller (PI. II and Fig. 17).

158

Papaver .

Poppy . .

-

Fields . .

The first four are scarlet or crimson.

i. hybridum

Round Poppy

May-July

Fields . .

Fruit round, furrowed, hispid.

ii. Argemone

Long ,,

May-July

Fields . .

Fruit pear-shaped, hispid (Plate I).

iii. Rhoeas .

Common ,,

May-July

Fields . .

Fruit round, smooth, hairs on stalk, spreading.

iv. dubium .

Smooth ,,

May-July

Fields . .

Fruit oblong, smooth, hairs pressed down.

V. Sommferum

White ,,

June-Aug.

Fields . .

Fruit smooth, round, leaves glaucous.

159

Meconopsis .

Welsh ,,

June-July

Rocks .

Yellow flowers, fruit oblong, smooth.

160

Glaucium .

Horned ,,

May-Aug.

Shores . .

Yellow, fruit a very long pod, glaucous.

161

Chelidonium .

Celandine.

May-Aug.

Banks .

Yellow flowers, stalk yields orange milk.

162

Helianthemum

Rock Rose .

June-Aug.

Rocks .

Yellow or white, shrubby. 2 sepals, small.

163

Clematis . .

Travellers'Joy

July-Aug.

Hedges. .

Climbing shrub, white flowers, feathery seeds.

164

Thalictrum .

Meadow Rue

July-Aug.

Streams

Racemes of loose yellow or creamy flowers.

165

Anemone

(Fig. 27)

Windflower .

April-May

Woods . .

Sepals changed to white or pink, drooping.

166

Adonis

Pheasant's

Eye

May-July

Fields . .

Pretty crimson flower, 5 to 10 concave petals.

167

Ranunculus .

Buttercup

-

Various

About 20 species and 20 varieties.

i. aquatilis

Water B. . .

May-Aug.

Streams

Very variable, white flowers, yellow centres.

ii. Ficaria.

Celandine

Mar.-June

Fields . .

Root tuberous, 8 petals and 3 sepals.

No.

Botanical Name.

Common Name.

Season.

Situation.

Structure and Habit.

167

Ranunculus - continued.

iii. lingua .

Spearwort

June-Sept.

Bogs . .

Largest kind, 3 to 5 feet, long leaves (Plate II).

iv. acris

Upright B. .

June-Aug.

Fields . .

Calyx spreading, root fibrous.

v. bulbosus

Bulbous B. .

May-Aug.

Fields . .

Calyx turned back, root bulbous.

vi. repens

Creeping B. .

May-Aug.

Fields . .

Calyx spreading, stalk furrowed, root creeping.

vii. arvensis

Cornfield B. .

May-July

Fields . .

Growing among corn, pale, hooks on fruit.

168

Caltha •

Marsh Marigold . .

Mar.-June

Marshes

Showy yellow flowers, succulent stems.

169

Trollius .

Globe-flower.

May-June

Mountains.

Globular yellow blooms, not opening out.

170

Helleborus .

Hellebore

April-May

Woods .

Green flowers; 1 to 2 feet, poisonous.

171

Aquilegia .

Columbine .

May-June

Woods .

Purple flowers with spurs. Often in gardens.

172

Delphinium .

Larkspur . .

June-July

Corn

Blue flowers, irregular with long spur.

173

Aconitum

Monkshood .

June-July

Streams

Dark blue flowers shaped like a hood.

174

Hypericum .

St. John's

Wort .

June-Aug.

Various

10 species, forming the class Polyadelphia.

i. Andro-saemum

Tutsan . .

June-Aug.

Woods. .

Handsome flowers, stamens in 5 bundles.

ii. perforatum

Common

St. John

July-Aug.

Hedges

Leaves held to light seem perforated.

iii. quadrangular

Square

St. John

July-Aug.

Hedges

Stem square, stamens in 3 bundles.

iv. pulchrum

Small St. J. .

June-Aug.

Banks . .

Flowers red in bud, stems round, erect.

v. elodes .

Marsh St. J.

July-Aug.

Bogs

Prostrate, rooting, leaves hairy, flowers few.

175

Malva . . .

Mallow . .

June-Oct.

Wastes.

Petals and sepals 5, stamens form tube (Fig. 29)

176

Arum (Pl. VI and Fig. 31)

Lords and

Ladies

April-May

Banks . .

Peculiar flower like a hood with poker inside.