This little book is intended for the pocket to enable the observer in his wanderings through field and woodland, to study the wonderful variety of wild flowers around him.

Preface.

In the descriptions of the species selected in this work, the shapes of the leaves and the parts of a flower are indicated, as far as possibly, in ordinary language.

Introduction.

Achene. - A fruit like a little nut.

Glossary.

The largest and most striking of our native species.

MEADOW-RUE : Family RANUNCULACEAE : Thalictrum flavum.