Ill 



YELLOW 



[Yellow or occasionally Yellow Flowers not described in Yellow 



Section.] 



Fragrant Woodbine. Lonicera grata. May. (Red Section, p. 269.) 



MARSH MARIGOLD. 



Caltha pahistris. Crowfoot Family. 



Stem. — Hollow; furrowed. Leaves. — Rounded; somewhat kidney- 

 shaped. Flowers. — Golden-yellow. Calyx. — Of five to nine petal-like 

 sepals. Corolla. — None. Stamens. — Numerous. Pistils. — Five to ten ; 

 almost without styles. 



*' Hark, hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings, 



And Phoebus 'gins arise. 

 His steeds to water at those springs 



On chalic'd flowers that lies ; 

 And winking Mary-buds begin 



To ope their golden eyes ; 

 With everything that pretty is — 



My lady sweet, arise ! 



Arise, arise." — Cymbeline. 



We claim — and not without authority — that these '^ winking 

 Mary-buds" are identical with the gay marsh marigolds which 

 border our springs and gladden our wet meadows every April. 

 There are those who assert that the poet had in mind the garden 

 marigold — Calendula — but surely no cultivated flower could har- 

 monize with the spirit of the song as do these gleaming swamp 

 blossoms. We will yield to the garden if necessary — 



" The marigold that goes to bed with the sun 

 And with him rises weeping — " 



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