GOLDEN JEWEL-WEED 



Stamens. — Five, short; filaments appendaged with a 

 scale on the inner side, and the scales united over the 

 stigma; anthers open on the inner face. 



Pistil. — Ovary oblong, five-celled; stigma sessile. 



Fruit. — A pod with disappearing partitions and a 

 thick axis bearing several seeds. When the pod opens 

 its five divisions recoil elastically and project the seeds. 



Fertilized by bees and butterflies. Nectar-bearing. 



Jewel-weed is not badly 

 named, for each solitary flower 

 hangs like a jewelled cornuco- 

 pia or trumpet from the tip of 

 branch or branchlet. It loves 

 shade and ordinarily is found 

 only in shaded places, but the 

 personal experience of once 

 finding a golden plant about 

 three feet high, with flowers so 

 abundant as to overpower the 

 leaves and standing in full sun- 

 light by a high mountain stream, 

 emphasizes the fact that there 

 are exceptions to all rules. 



Coimtry children love to 

 plunge the leaves beneath clear water where they take 

 on the appearance of burnished silver, and when re- 

 moved no drop remains upon the surface. 



The blossom is one of the most singular in our flora, 

 red gold or pale gold and of a design so rare that it is 

 difiicult to describe. One of the sepals has developed 

 into a cornucopia with the small end doubled up into 

 a little spur. Three other parts are fully in evidence: 

 one is a hood, and the others, which are cleft, twist and 



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Golden Jewel-weed. 

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