WILD FLOWERS OP THE YEAR. " INSTRUCT US, LORD, LONDON: THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY, Instituted 1799. 1846. fo PREFACE. In giving some account of the Wild Flowers of each month, the author has selected those which are most common, and most likely to be known by name to the general reader. Το have enumerated each flower of each month, would have occupied so much space, as to render these few pages no more than a floral dictionary. The writer would regard the work as a little guide-book to the fields, and lanes, and woods; designed to direct the attention of the lover of country walks, to the lowly flowers, which he may be most likely to find in his path. "For not to dwell at large, on things remote The scientific name of each flower is added, in order to assist any who may wish to study Botany. The author however, is not one of those “Who allium call their onions and their leeks," and would rather recommend to the unscientific their simple English names. Many of these are connected with old times and old customs; or convey some idea of the uses of the plants to which they belong. Our pretty English May, or Hawthorn, gains nothing by its Botanic name of Crategus oxyacantha; nor can the expressive Day's-eye, bring to us a pleasanter idea, even by its Latin name of Bellis perennis. JANUARY Page 15 Early leafing trees-Young foliage of herbs-Snowdrop-Red Dead-nettle-Dandelion - Dandelion Seeds-Groundse] - Ca- nadian Flea-bane-Coltsfoot-Marsh Marigold - First fiower March weather-Almond tree-Lombardy Poplac- Ash-Me- zereon-Poisonous berries-Use of plants in France-Spurge Laurel - Celandine – Whitlow grass - Shepherd's Purse- Gloryless-Flowers of woods-Violet-Anemone--- Daffodil - Poet's Narcissus-Narcissus in Holland-Arum-Cranesbill- Blackthorn - Germander Speedwell - Ivy-leaved Speedwell-- Wall Speedwell-Gray-field Speedwell- Common Speedwell- rawberry-headed Trefoil-Cowslip-Oxlip --Love of Nightin- gale for Cowslip--Cuckoo flower-Autumnal Gentian-Field Gentian-Heartsease-Scorpion Grass-Butter-bur-llyacinth -Oriental Hyacinth-Starch Hyacinth-Squill-Green Hel- lebore - Stinking Hellebore - Guelder Rose-Box-Pasque Flower-Wood Sorrel-Yellow wood Sorrel-Field Dock Sorrel --Sheep's Sorrel-Sweet Wallflower-White Bryony--Sea-side Spring woodlands-Tway blade-Brown-winged Orchis-Man Orchis-Bee Orchis-Fly Orchis-Butterfly Orchis-Ladies' Tresses-Strawberry Fiower-Hautboy Strawberry-Lily of the Valley --Solomon's Seal-Sweet Woodruff--Herb Paris -- Bugle -Spindle Tree-Dogwood-Black Currant - Red Currani- Saintfoin-Moving Plant – Theory of sensation in vegetables - Knot Grass-Foxtail Grass- Reed meadow Grass- Butter- rup-Hawthorn-Old Superstitions-Furze -- Clematis —- Bil- berry --Whortleberry - Stitch wort - Periwinkle --Toadflax - Wall Pellitory- Small Bugloss – Dyer's Bugloss-Borage- Comfrey-Lung-wort-Rest Harrow-- CommonJuniper-Bitter Vetch-Cormeille-Vetches-Red Pottage-Lady's Finger Hedge Mustard - Field Mustard-London Rocket-Peony- Iris - Lychnis-Golden Saxifrage – Rue-leaved Saxifrage |
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