WILD FLOWERS OF THE YEAR. "INSTRUCT US, LORD, THOU FATHER OF THE SUNBEAM AND THE SOUL LONDON: THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY, Instituted 1799. 1846. 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 Crataegus oxyacantha; nor can the expressive Day's-eye, bring to us a pleasanter idea, even by its Latin name of Bellis perennis. JANUARY. Flowers in garden-Primrose-Daisy-Winter Furze- Early Page 15 Early leafing trees-Young foliage of herbs-Snowdrop- Red Dead-nettle-Dandelion-Dandelion Seeds-Groundsel - Ca- March weather-Almond tree-Lombardy Poplar- 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— Blackthorn Germander Speedwell - Ivy-leaved Speedwell-- Wall Speedwell-Gray-field Speedwell-Common Speedwell- Lamb's Lettuce-Salad herbs-Ground Ivy-Fumitory-Ro- bert-leaved Cranesbill-Beauty of meadows-Meadow Clover- Dutch Clover-Shamrock--Valley of Sharon-Yellow Trefoil -Hop Trefoil-Starry-headed Trefoil-Hare's-foot Trefoil- Strawberry-headed Trefoil-Cowslip-Oxlip-Love of Nightin- gale for Cowslip-Cuckoo flower-Autumnal Gentian-Field Gentian-Heartsease-Scorpion Grass-Butter-bur-Hyacinth -Oriental Hyacinth-Starch Hyacinth-Squill-Green Hel- lebore Stinking Hellebore - Guelder Rose-Box-Pasque Flower-Wood Sorrel-Yellow wood Sorrel-Field Dock Sorrel Spring woodlands-Tway blade-Brown-winged Orchis-Man Orchis-Bee Orchis-Fly Orchis-Butterfly Orchis-Ladies' Tresses-Strawberry Flower-Hautboy Strawberry-Lily of the Valley-Solomon's Seal-Sweet Woodruff-Herb Paris-Bugle -Spindle Tree-Dogwood-Black Currant - Red Currant- 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 Stitchwort - 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- |