. Field and woodland plants. ing during June and stems are tufted, or sometimes sUghtly creeping ; and its leavesare narrow and flat. The spikelets are round or broadly ovate,nearly a quarter of an inch long, more or less tinged with purple,on the long, slender branches of a loose, spreading panicle tlireeor four inches long. The broad glumes are all similar in shape, butdecrease in size upwards, and are not bristled. The other is the Common Mat Grass {Nardus stricta), a denselytufted, wiry grass, from fom- inches to a foot in height, common onheaths and moors, flowering in June and J
. Field and woodland plants. ing during June and stems are tufted, or sometimes sUghtly creeping ; and its leavesare narrow and flat. The spikelets are round or broadly ovate,nearly a quarter of an inch long, more or less tinged with purple,on the long, slender branches of a loose, spreading panicle tlireeor four inches long. The broad glumes are all similar in shape, butdecrease in size upwards, and are not bristled. The other is the Common Mat Grass {Nardus stricta), a denselytufted, wiry grass, from fom- inches to a foot in height, common onheaths and moors, flowering in June and July. The leaves arevery fine and stiff, quite bristle-like. The flowers are in a one-sidedspike, from one to three inches long, the one-flowered spikeletsbeing placed alternately in two rows, in the notches of the centralaxis. The spikelets are often of a reddish or purplish colour, andeach has a single, narrow, pointed glume, about a thud of an inchlong, an inner glume with a short bristle, three stamens, and asingle -:^ Plate VII. FLOWERS OF THE CORNFIELD. 1. Long Smooth-headed Poppy. 2. Field Scabious. 3. Corn Cockle. 4. Corn Marigold. 5. Flax. 6. Corn Pheasants-eye. XVII IN THE CORN FIELD The flowers included in the present chapter are to be found principally in cultivated fields ; but since they are more particularlyassociated with corn crops, or occiu- so commonly in those fields inwhich grain is one of the products included in the rotation adopted,we separate them from the other flowers of the field, and considerthem under the above head. It will be observed that the majority of the flowers thus dealtwith are summer-bloomeis that flower while the ears of corn arefilhng out, and consequently are in fruit at the time of , when the corn is cut, their seeds are shaken from the ripefruits, or the fruits are themselves levelled to the ground, with theresult that those which are not ploughed too deeply into the soilspring up almost in the same position
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