YELLOW 



The growth of this plant is very striking when seen at its 

 best. The erect stem is surrounded with regular whorls of leaves, 

 from the upper one of which [curves a circle of long-stemmed, 

 nodding flowers. They suggest an exquisite design for church 

 candelabra. 



COMMON BLADDERWORT. 



Utricularia vulgaris. Bladderwort Family, 



Stems. — Immersed ; one to three feet long. Leaves. — Many-parted : 

 hair-like ; bearing numerous bladders. Scape. — Six to twelve inches long. 

 Floxvers. — Yellow; five to twelve on each scape. Calyx. — Two-lipped. 

 Corolla. — Two-lipped ; spurred at the base. Stamens. — Two. Pistil. — 

 One. 



This curious water-plant may or may not have roots ; in 

 either case it is not fastened to the ground, but is floated by 

 means of the many bladders which are borne on its finely 

 dissected leaves. It is found commonly in ponds and slow 

 streams, flowering throughout the summer. Thoreau calls it 

 **a dirty conditioned flower, like a sluttish woman with a gaudy 

 yellow bonnet." 



The horned bladderwort, U. cornuta, roots in the peat-bogs 

 and sandy swamps. Its large yellow helmet-shaped flowers are 

 very fragrant, less than half a dozen being borne on each scape. 

 There are a number of other species of yellow bladderwort, with 

 smaller flowers, which are recognized easily as belonging to this 

 group. 



YELLOW-EYED GRASS. 



Xyris Jiexuosa. Mayaca Family. 



Scape. — Slender, ten to sixteen inches high, often from a bulbous base. 

 Leaves. — Narrowly Imear. sheathing the base ot scape, commonly twisted 

 with age, as is the scape. Flowers. — Yellow, small, growing in a head, usually 

 about two opening at the same time. Calyx. — Of three sepals, one of which 

 soon withers. Corolla. — Of three clawed petals. Stamens. — Three fertile, 

 with anthers, and three sterile, without anthers. Pistil. — One, with three 

 cleft style. 



In wet, boggy places, growing often in close companionship 

 with the sundew and bladderwort, we notice during the summer 

 the round heads of the yellow -eyed grass. 



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