Detailed guide to identification for botanists and students.

Excerpt from Handbook of the British Flora, Vol. 2: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns Indigenous To, or Naturalized In, the British Isles; For the Use of Beginners and Amateurs Herbs, with alternate, entire or toothed leaves, without sti pules; the flowers most commonly blue or white, either distinct, or collected into heads with a general involucre. Calyx adhering to the ovary, with a free border of 5 teeth or lobes, sometimes very narrow and almost reduced to bristles. Corolla inserted within the lobes of the calyx, regular or irregular, with 5 teeth or lobes. Stamens 5, inserted within the corolla at its base, but otherwise free from it. Anthers distinct, or rarely cohering in a ring round the style. Style single, with an entire or divided stigma. Ovary and capsule inferior, divided into from 2 to 5 cells, with several seeds in each (or, in a very few exotic species, reduced to one seed). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.