50 FAMILIAR FLOWERS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 



I have transplanted it successfully to the grounds in 

 front of my cottage, where it flourishes and spreads 

 from year to year. It reaches its prime about the 1st 

 of June. It is a relative of the iris. 

 Yellow star-grass. Star-grass is a pretty little yellow 

 Jlypoxys cnvta. flowcr witli apparently six pointed 



petals (in reality the six divisions of the perianth), 

 which blooms almost anywhere (in the meadows) in 

 May and June. The flower stem, about six inches 

 tall, terminates in two or three flowers as broad as 

 a nickel, perhaps one in full bloom and two others 

 in bud. The outside of the flower is greenish ; the 

 leaves are grasslike and hairy. It belongs to the 

 Amaryllis family, and is closely related to the nar- 

 cissus. 



Common Cinquefoil. Tiie very common cinquefoil is 

 Pohntiiia caxaJcnsis. found bcsidc tlic couutry high- 

 ways and by-ways, and in pasture, meadow, and 

 woodland. It is so often mistaken for a yellow- 

 flowered strawberry that I must at once show the 

 difference. Notice in my drawing of the strawber- 

 ry that the stems of the leav^es are hairy ; the 

 stems of our cinquefoil are brown and as sharp and 

 clean as a piano wire. Also notice that the cin- 

 quefoil has five leaves, or rather divisions of a 

 leaf, and the strawberry has three ; the latter little 

 plant never goes beyond a three-divisioned leaf, but 



