Plants -- Identification; Wild flowers -- Great Britain
We conclude this chapter with the names of four species of Grasses that
are partial to wooded districts, and which flower during the summer
months. They are the Millet Grass (_Milium effusum_), the Bearded Wheat
(_Triticum caninum_), the Slender False Brome (_Brachypodium
sylvaticum_), and the Hairy Brome Grass (_Bromus asper_). The first
three of these are represented on pages 148 and 149, and the fourth is
shown on Plate II.
[Illustration: _Plate III._
FLOWERS OF THE WAYSIDE.
1. Round-leaved Crane's-bill. 2. Black Horehound. 3. Evergreen Alkanet.
4. Bristly Ox-tongue. 5. Red Bartsia. 6. Annual Meadow Grass. 7. Hemlock
Stork's-bill.]
XI
WASTES AND WAYSIDES IN SUMMER
It will probably have been noticed that several of the spring flowers of
our waysides and waste places continue to bloom into the summer.
Descriptions of these will, of course, not be repeated here, but, for
the convenience of those who are endeavouring to identify flowers which
have been gathered during the summer months, we append a list of the
species referred to:
PLANTS OF THE WAYSIDE AND WASTE GROUND THAT BLOOM DURING BOTH SPRING
AND SUMMER
Greater Celandine.
Shepherd's Purse.
Yellow Rocket.
Early Winter Cress.
Thale Cress.
Wild Turnip.
Procumbent Pearlwort.
Lesser Stitchwort.
Mouse-ear Chickweed.
Dove's-foot Crane's-bill.
Jagged-leaved Crane's-bill.
Herb Robert.
Black Medick.
Bird's-foot.
Bush Vetch.
Chervil.
Mouse-ear Hawkweed.
Groundsel.
Common Speedwell.
Wall Speedwell.
Field Speedwell.
Gray Field Speedwell.
White Dead Nettle.
Red Dead Nettle.
Cut-leaved Dead Nettle.
Yellow Pimpernel.
Annual Meadow Grass.
The flowers described in the present chapter are those which do not, as
a rule, bloom before the month of June.
Our first example is the Wild Clematis, Traveller's Joy, or Old Man's
Beard (_Clematis Vitalba_), of the order _Ranunculaceæ_--a climbing
shrub, very common in the hedgerows of the south and centre of England,
producing a profusion of white, scented flowers during July and August,
and rendered even more conspicuous in the autumn and winter by the dense
clusters of feathered fruits. Its stem is woody and often very thick at
the base; and the annual branches climb over the neighbouring plants,
clinging by means of the twisted leafstalks. The leaves are opposite,
pinnate, with three or five stalked, ovate or cordate leaflets; and the
flowers are in loose, axillary or terminal panicles. The latter have
four greenish-white sepals; no petals; numerous stamens; and many
one-seeded carpels, each of which, when ripe, is tipped by the
persistent style that has become very long and feathered.
[Illustration: THE WILD CLEMATIS.]
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