A considerable number of summer flowers continue to bloom during the autumn months, while a few are truly autumnal, and are not to be found till the summer has nearly or quite passed.
In corn-fields we may still meet with the beautiful Pheasant's-eye (_Adonis autumnalis_), and in fields the Hairy Buttercup (_Ranunculus hirsutus_), the Daisy (_Bellis perennis_) and the Red Hemp-nettle (_Galeopsis Ladanum_) are yet in flower, while the Annual Meadow Grass (_Poa annua_) continues to produce new flowers to the end of the year.
On sunny banks in chalk districts we still see the delicate Rock Rose (_Helianthemum vulgare_); and on banks almost everywhere the Wild Clary (_Salvia Verbenaca_), and the still more hardy Milfoil (_Achillea millefolium_), Knapweeds (_Centaurea nigra_ and _C. Scabiosa_), Field Scabious (_Knautia arvensis_), Dark Mullein (_Verbascum nigrum_) and the Toadflax (_Linaria vulgaris_).
Then, on downs and heaths we find the Yellow Bedstraw (_Galium verum_), the crimson flowers of the Fine-leaved Heath (_Erica cinerea_), and the rose-coloured or white blossoms of the Heather or Ling (_Calluna vulgaris_): also the Carline Thistle (_Carlina vulgaris_), with its inner involucral bracts broadly spreading while the sun shines, but bent inwards to protect the florets during dull weather when the insects are at rest, the lilac flower-heads of the Devil's-bit Scabious (_Scabiosa succisa_) and the Small Scabious (_S. Columbaria_), and the conspicuous flowers of the Chamomile (_Anthemis nobilis_), all standing out in bold relief against the background of autumnal foliage.
Still more numerous are the autumn flowers of the waysides. By the dry and dusty roadside we see the yellow flowers and silvery leaves of the Silver-weed (_Potentilla anserina_), the little starlike flowers of the Chickweed (_Stellaria media_), the yellow flower-heads of the Dandelion (_Taraxacum officinale_), Sow Thistle (_Sonchus oleraceus_) and Groundsel (_Senecio vulgaris_), the straggling Knot-grass (_Polygonum aviculare_), the Spotted Persicary (_Polygonum Persicaria_), the Shepherd's Purse (_Capsella Bursa-pastoris_), the Scentless Mayweed (_Matricaria inodora_), the Chamomile (_Anthemis nobilis_), the White Goose-foot (_Chenopodium album_), and Oraches (_Atriplex hastata_ and _A. patula_). Where the soil is more generous we find the Herb Robert (_Geranium Robertianum_), the Fleabane (_Inula dysenterica_), Red and White Dead-nettles (_Lamium purpureum_ and _L. album_), and the Petty Spurge (_Euphorbia Peplus_); while on old walls the Pellitory (_Parietaria officinalis_) is still in flower.