Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the more than 270 original illustrations, some in color. See 42696-h.htm or 42696-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42696/42696-h/42696-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42696/42696-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/fieldwoodlandpla00furn Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). The oe_ligature has been replaced by [oe]. FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTS * * * * * THE OUTDOOR WORLD SERIES. THE OUTDOOR WORLD; or, the Young Collector's Handbook. By W. S. FURNEAUX. With 18 Plates (16 of which are coloured), and 549 Illustrations in the Text. Crown 8 vo. gilt edges, 6_s._ net. BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS (BRITISH). By W. S. FURNEAUX. With 12 coloured Plates and 241 Illustrations in the Text. Crown 8 vo. gilt edges, 6_s._ net. LIFE IN PONDS AND STREAMS. By W. S. FURNEAUX. With 8 coloured Plates and 331 Illustrations in the Text. Crown 8 vo. gilt edges, 6_s._ net. FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTS. By W. S. FURNEAUX. With 8 Coloured Plates and numerous Illustrations from Drawings by PATTEN WILSON and from Photographs. Crown 8 vo. gilt edges, 6_s._ net. THE SEA SHORE. By W. S. FURNEAUX. With 8 Plates in colour and over 300 Illustrations in the Text. Crown 8 vo. gilt edges, 6_s._ net. BRITISH BIRDS. By W.H. HUDSON. With a Chapter on Structure and Classification by FRANK E. BEDDARD, F.R.S. With 16 Plates (8 of which are coloured), and over 100 Illustrations in the Text. Crown 8 vo. gilt edges, 6_s._ net. COUNTRY PASTIMES FOR BOYS. By P. ANDERSON GRAHAM. With 252 Illustrations from Drawings and Photographs. Crown 8 vo. gilt edges, 3_s._ net. LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO. 39 Paternoster Row, London, New York, Bombay, and Calcutta. * * * * * [Illustration: _Plate I._ SPRING FLOWERS OF THE WOODS. 1. Green Hellebore. 2. Plantain-leaved Leopard's-bane. 3. Lady's Slipper. 4. Sand Garlic. 5. Wild Hyacinth. 6. Wood Melic Grass.] FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTS by W. S. FURNEAUX Author of 'The Outdoor World' 'British Butterflies and Moths' 'Life in Ponds and Streams' 'The Sea Shore' etc. [Illustration] With Eight Plates in Colour, and Numerous Illustrations by Patten Wilson, and Photographs from Nature by the Author Longmans, Green, and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London New York, Bombay, and Calcutta 1909 All rights reserved PREFACE This additional volume to the young naturalist's 'Outdoor World Series' is an attempt to provide a guide to the study of our wild plants, shrubs and trees--a guide which, though comparatively free from technical terms and expressions, shall yet be strictly correct and scientific.