Here we meet, besides old acquaintances from the meadows, the GROUNDSEL
(_Senecio vulgaris_) and the CHICKWEED (_Stellaria media_), both valued
as birds’ food, and common everywhere; the SHEPARD’S POUCH (_Capsella
Bursa pastoris_), easily recognized by its almost three-cornered little
pods, and blooming, like the groundsel, nearly all the year round; the
white, spotted, and purple BLIND-NETTLES (_Lamium album_, _L.
maculatum_, and _L. purpureum_), and the ORIGANUM (_Origanum vulgare_),
are labiate flowers, which are diligently visited by insects for their
honey. Here, too, are the bristly, blue-flowered ADDER-WORT (_Echium
vulgare_); the round-leaved MALLOW (_Malva rotundifolia_); the BURDOCK
(_Lappa major_), the blossoms of which cling to the clothes so readily;
the common NETTLES (_Urtica_); and the TANSY.