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Rum or Black Cherry Prunus serotina sketchbook study.  The page includes two bark studies (from an old and young tree), the habit of tree, and berry details.  The bud, individual flower, blossoming raceme, vein detail and petiole gland details are also depicted.

Common Scurvy-grass Cochlearia officinalis showing distinctive basal rosette

Soft brome Bromus hordeaceus grass showing growth habit and botanical details of spikelet and ligule

Lesser stitchwort Stellaria graminea with detail of square stem

Dandelion Taxacum officinale with details of seed and root

Scarlet tiger moth Callimorpha dominula on birds foot trefoil Lotus corniculata plant

Yellow loosestrife Lysimachia vulgaris pencil drawing

White campion Silene latifolia with hairy leaves

Red clover Trifolium pratensis plant

Red campion Silene dioica with buds and hairy stem

Ragged robin Lychnis flos cuculi with flowers, buds and leaves

Oxeye daisy Leucanthemum vulgare with flowers and bud

Perforated St Johns wort Hypericum perforatum showing flowers and leaves

Lords and Ladies Arum maculatum showing spotty leaves, spathe and flower and orange berries held erect

Greater stitchwort Stellaria holostea with rooting nodes and flowers along with elongate leaves

Foxglove Digitalis purpurea plant

Foxglove Digitalis purpurea individual flower with white tailed bumble bee inside

False oat grass Arrhenatherum elatius with ligule, spikelet and lemma detail including info on the elongate bent awns

Dandelion Taraxacum officinale with root, flower, bud, and dandelion clock along with individual flower and individual seed detail

Cow parsley Anthriscus sylvestris with individual flower details and showing hollow stem along with umbels and seeds

Common Chickweed Stellaria media sprig with flowrs and buds growing in all directions

Black horehound Ballota nigra with detail on individual purple flower

Barren brome grass Anisantha sterilis with spikelet detail

Cow parsley illustration in pencil with details of stem, leaves and flowering head picked out in watercolour, and with a small view of the plant grwing at a distance, close up study of the individual flower and its anatomy