These SEPALS are very often green, like leaves, but you may have white sepals, or yellow sepals, or blue sepals or pink sepals. You will learn all about them after you know all that is in this flower-book and are able to read a more difficult one.

The third new word you must know the meaning of, is PETALS. Nearly every flower has petals. They are the beautiful coloured leaves of the flower that are within the calyx. It is these lovely petals, pink in the rose, yellow in the buttercup, red in the poppy, and blue in the forget-me-not, that most of us mean when we talk of flowers, and it is these soft, silky petals which attract us, and not us only, but the birds and the bees and the butterflies, which all visit the gay flowers. These petals are among the most beautiful things in this wonderful world.

The fourth new word you must try to remember is STAMENS. The stamens are not very attractive, but they are very important to the flower, as without them there could be no new seeds, and if there were no new seeds we should presently have no more flowers.

The stamens are usually fine, slender threads which grow either singly, or in little bunches or in a ring within the circle of petals. Each slender thread has a fat little head at the end, a purple head, or a pink head, or a red head, or, very often, a yellow head. And this stamen head is filled with fine powder which is needed to make the new seeds grow.

These four, CALYX, SEPALS, PETALS, and STAMENS, are the only new words you will have to learn in order to understand all that is written in this little flower-book, and I hope that, when summer comes, you will try to find all the plants that I have written about here, and that you will be able to tell the names, without reading them, of every flower of which Miss Kelman has made you a picture.—Yours sincerely,

C. E. SMITH

LIST OF FLOWERS

YELLOW FLOWERS
Plate.Page.
[I].1. Lesser Celandine,[1]
2. Bulbous Buttercup,[2]
3. Meadow Buttercup,[3]
4. Marsh Marigold,[4]
[II]. 1. Wallflower,[5]
2. Wild Mustard,[6]
3. Hedge Mustard,[7]
[III].1. Yellow Horned Poppy,[8]
2. Rock Rose,[9]
3. Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage,[10]
[IV]. 1. Common Whin or Gorse,[11]
2. Broom,[12]
3. Needle Whin,[13]
[V]. 1. St John's Wort,[14]
2. Common Avens,[15]
3. Tormentil,[16]
[VI]. 1. Birdsfoot Trefoil,[17]
2. Hop Trefoil,[18]
3. Lady's Fingers,[19]
4. Meadow Vetchling,[20]
[VII]. 1. Creeping Cinquefoil,[21]
2. Silver Weed,[22]
3. Common Agrimony,[23]
[VIII]. 1. Common Nipplewort,[24]
2. Autumnal Hawkbit,[25]
3. Yellow Goatsbeard,[26]
[IX]. 1. Coltsfoot,[27]
2. Common Groundsel,[28]
3. Common Ragwort,[29]
[X]. 1. Crosswort,[30]
2. Biting Stonecrop,[31]
3. Yellow Bedstraw,[32]
4. Mugwort,[33]
[XI]. 1. Wild Mignonette,[34]
2. Common Dandelion,[35]
3. Tansy,[36]
[XII]. 1. Primrose,[37]
2. Cowslip,[38]
3. Bog Asphodel,[39]
[XIII]. 1. Honeysuckle,[40]
2. Yellow Water Iris,[41]
3. Daffodil,[42]
[XIV]. 3. Common Comfrey,[43]
WHITE FLOWERS
[XIV]. 1. Sneezewort Yarrow,[44]
2. Mountain Everlasting,[45]
[XV]. 1. Traveller's Joy,[46]
2. Wood Anemone,[47]
3. Water Crowfoot,[48]
[XVI]. 1. Shepherd's Purse,[49]
2. Common Scurvy Grass,[50]
3. Hairy Rock Cress,[51]
[XVII]. 1. Common Chickweed,[52]
2. Mouse-eared Chickweed,[53]
3. Greater Stitchwort,[54]
[XVIII]. 1. Goutweed,[55]
2. Wild Angelica,[56]
3. Upright Hedge Parsley,[57]
4. Hemlock Water Dropwort,[58]
[XIX]. 1. Cow Parsnip,[59]
2. Wild Chervil,[60]
3. Sea Carrot,[61]
4. Common Hemlock,[62]
[XX]. 1. Meadow Sweet,[63]
2. Wild Strawberry,[64]
3. Wood Sorrel,[65]
[XXI]. 1. Goosegrass or Cleavers,[66]
2. Woodruff,[67]
3. Yarrow or Millfoil,[68]
[XXII]. 1. Ox-eye Daisy,[69]
2. Daisy,[70]
3. Scentless Mayweed,[71]
[XXIII]. 1. Snowdrop,[72]
2. Common Star of Bethlehem,[73]
3. Ransoms,[74]
[XXIV]. 1. Mossy Saxifrage,[75]
2. Marsh Pennywort,[76]
3. Intermediate Wintergreen,[77]
[XXV]. 1. Grass of Parnassus,[78]
2. Common Bladder Campion,[79]
3. Sea Campion,[80]
[XXVI]. 1. Common Eyebright,[81]
2. White Dead Nettle,[82]
3. Spotted Orchis,[83]
[XXVII]. 2. Chickweed Wintergreen,[85]
[XL.] 2. Burnet Rose, [125]
GREEN FLOWERS
[XXVII]. 1. Red-Berried Bryony,[84]
3. Cuckoopint or Wake Robin,[86]
[XXVIII]. 1. Common Mare's Tail,[87]
3. Greater Burdock,[89]
[XXIX]. 1. Mouse-Tail,[90]
2. Ribwort Plantain,[91]
3. Knotty Figwort,[92]
[XXX]. 1. Lady's Mantle,[93]
2. Dog's Mercury,[94]
3. Common Nettle,[95]
PURPLE FLOWERS
[XXXI]. 1. Purple Sea-Rocket,[96]
2. Cuckoo Flower or Lady's Smock,[97]
3. Marsh Cinquefoil,[98]
4. Water Avens,[99]
[XXXII]. 1. Dog Violet, [100]
2. Heartsease, [101]
3. Common Mallow, [102]
[XXXIII]. 1. Scotch Thistle, [103]
2. Marsh Plume Thistle, [104]
3. Field Scabious, [105]
[XXXIV]. 1. Common Ling or Heather, [106]
2. Black Knapweed, [107]
3. Wild Thyme [108]
[XXXV]. 1. Early Purple Orchis,[109]
2. Purple Loose-strife,[110]
3. Common Butterwort, [111]
[XXXVI]. 1. Common Bugle, [112]
2. Ground Ivy, [113]
PINK FLOWERS
[XXVIII]. 2. Common Butterbur,[88]
[XXXVI]. 3. Hairy Water Mint, [114]
[XXXVII]. 1. Common Fumitory,[115]
2. Ragged Robin, [116]
3. Red Campion,[117]
[XXXVIII]. 1. Dove's-foot Crane's-bill, [118]
2. Herb-Robert, [119]
3. Stork's Bill,[120]
[XXXIX]. 1. Rest Harrow, [121]
2. Saintfoin, [122]
3. Red Clover, [123]
[XL]. 1. Dog Rose, [124]
3. Lousewort, or Red Rattle, [126]
[XLI]. 1. Great Wild Valerian, [127]
2. Small Bindweed,[128]
3. Foxglove,[129]
[XLII]. 1. Broad-Leaved Willow Herb, [130]
2. Corn Cockle, [131]
3. Cross-Leaved Pink Heath, [132]
BLUE FLOWERS
[XLIII]. 1. Blue Meadow Crane's-bill, [133]
2. Milkwort, [134]
3. Corn Flower or Blue Bottle, [135]
4. Tufted Vetch, [136]
[XLIV]. 1. Wild Succory, [137]
2. Blue Bell or Harebell, [138]
3. Sea Holly, [139]
[XLV]. 1. Germander Speedwell, [140]
2. Brooklime Speedwell, [141]
3. Great Water Forget-me-not, [142]
[XLVI]. 1. Common Borage, [143]
2. Evergreen Alkanet, [144]
3. Wood Hyacinth, [145]
[XLVII]. 1. Field Gentian, [146]
2. Sea Aster, [147]
3. Viper's Bugloss, [148]
RED FLOWERS
[XLVIII]. 1. Red Poppy, [149]
2. Scarlet Pimpernel, [150]
3. Common Sorrel, [151]