. Domaine et de bois plantes. ant dans les pâturages vallonnés du nord de l'Angleterre, mais est beaucoup moins fréquent dans le sud. Elle varie de six à dix-huit pouces de hauteur, et bearsloose, terminal des grappes de petites fleurs vert-jaunâtre de Juneto Août. L'Uttle fleurs ont un calice libre de huit segments deux verticilles de quatre, l'extérieur plus petit que l'Intérieur ; pas de pétales ;quelques ; étamines et un ovaire d'un ou deux carpelsenclosed ensemencées dans le tube du calice. Dans les prairies humides et d'autres endroits humides nous voir souvent thefragrant Meadow Sweet ou reine des prés Spiraea {Uhnaria),de la s

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. Field and woodland plants. ant inthe hilly pastures of North England, but is much less frequent inthe South. It varies from six to eighteen inches in height, and bearsloose, terminal clusters of small yellowish-green flowers from Juneto August. The Uttle flowers have a free calyx of eight segments intwo whorls of four, the outer ones smaller than the inner ; no petals ;a few stamens ; and an ovary of one or two one-seeded carpelsenclosed in the tube of the calyx. In moist meadows and other damp places we commonly see thefragrant Meadow Sweet or Queen of the Meadows {Spiraea Uhnaria), of the same order. This is an erect plant, from two to four feet high, bearing densely-crowded cymes of small, creamy-white flowers MEADOWS, FIELDS AND PASTURES—SUMMER 219 from June to August. Its stem is rather thick, often reddish incolour ; and the leaves are large, pinnate, with from five to nineovate, uregularly-toothed leaflets, two or three inches long, andalso several smaller leaflets at the base of the stalk or between the. The Meadow Sweet. larger ones. Each of the httle flowers has a five-lobed, free calyx ;five petals ; numerous stamens ; and an ovary that ripens intofrom five to eight Uttle twisted capsules. The Burnet Saxifrage [Pimpinella Saxifraga), of the orderUmbellifercB, is a common plant in dry pastures, and is very geneiallydistributed. Its stem is from one to two feet high, and but little 220 FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTS branched; and the leaves are very variable in form—the radicalones usually pinnate, with from three to nine oval or round leafletsthat are eitlier lobcd or deeply tootlied ; and the upper also pinnate, with the segments of the leaflets few and very narrow. TJie umbelsarc terminal, with from eight to sixteen slender rays, and no bracts.The flowers are small and white, and appear from July to September.The Wild Carrot [Daucus Carota) of the same order is also com-mon in pastures. It is an erect plant, with a tap root, and a branch-ing stem from one

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