The field, the garden and the woodland, or, Interesting facts respecting flowers and plants in general . andAugust. The Burdock, though possessing less beautythan many other plants, is useful both in medicineand food; being eaten either as a salad, or aboiled vegetable : and the young stalks are saidw^hen cooked to have the flavour of bristly heads of seeds, or burrs, as you mayperhaps call them, are often thrown by childrenat each other in sport, and their adhering eitherto clothes or to the fur and wool of animals iscaused by the heads containing the seeds beingthickly set with
The field, the garden and the woodland, or, Interesting facts respecting flowers and plants in general . andAugust. The Burdock, though possessing less beautythan many other plants, is useful both in medicineand food; being eaten either as a salad, or aboiled vegetable : and the young stalks are saidw^hen cooked to have the flavour of bristly heads of seeds, or burrs, as you mayperhaps call them, are often thrown by childrenat each other in sport, and their adhering eitherto clothes or to the fur and wool of animals iscaused by the heads containing the seeds beingthickly set with bristles. Being by these meanscarried from place to place, and scattered abroadby the wind, they alight upon a soil suitable for 24 COROLLA AND CALYX. them, where they lie during winter, and spring upat their proper season. The bristly head is thecalyx, or flower cup, from which the purpleflower has died away. The coloured part of a flower, the flower, as bypre-eminence you would call it, is termed thecorolla. This is red in the rose, and purple inthe violet. It is generally supported by the calyx. Eose Bud. a, calyx ; h, corolla in the bud. or flower-cup, which forms its outer covering, andis, in the different flowers, of various calyx serves as a protection to the delicatecorolla, and you may observe that before the floweris wholly expanded it is generally longer than thebud and almost envelops it. This is very visible AVENS. 25 in the rose-bud, the contrast of whose green calyxwith its bright red corolla, renders it so beautiful. Some flowers are destitute of a calyx, as thetulip; and some others, like the poppy, lose it soearly, that you would probably think them naked,as flowers are called whose calyxes are wanting. The fruit of the common Avens (GeumUrbdiiem), a little yellow flower growing in thehedges, is not only, like the calyx of the burdock,a small ball of spines, but is covered with aclammy substance, which affords an additionalfacility for its fastenin
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