MorxTAiN now i:rs 



A most curious and interesting- plant, which <;r()\vs on hi;;h 

 rocky slopes and furnis patches upon the ground bv means of 

 its rosettes of pale screen leaves and decumbent stems. The 

 little yellow flowers are cruciform and inconspicuous, and 

 grow in clusters at the ends of the long slender stalks which 

 spring out from below the central rosettes of leaves, while an 

 irregular circle of outer leaves grows be)()nd them again. It 

 is the large inflated pods, of a delicate gray-green hue, whic h 

 give this plant its common name and constitute its greatest 

 attraction. They are really exquisitely quaint, and so unusual 

 as to always attract the notice of the i)assing traveller. The 

 leaves are spatulate and small. The name PJiysaria is derived 

 from the Greek, signifying ** bellows," and refers to the inflated 

 fruit. 



YELLOW VIOLET 

 Vio/a glabella. \'iolet Familv 



Stems: glabrous, slender, from a short, fleshy, horizontal rhizome. 

 Leaves: radical ones on long petioles, the upper short-petioled, reniform- 

 cordate, crenately toothed. Flowers: brii^dit yellow. 



This is a small plant which blooms close to the ground, ami 

 is found chiefly at high altitudes. 



'' When beechen buds be,t;in to swt^ll. 



And woods the bluebird's warble know. 

 The yellow violet's modest bell 



Peeps from the last year's leaves l>clow." 



Its bright golden flowers are finclv jK'ncilled in the centre 

 :h black lines, and gro\ 

 of small roundish leaves. 



with black lines, and grow on short slender stalks amid a ma 



YELLOW MELILOT 



Me I Hot lis ojl'icinalis. Tea Family 



Stems: ascending, one to four feet hi<;h, branrhioLi;. Leaves: trifolio- 

 late, petioled, rather distant : leaflets oblonj.::. serrate, narrowed at the 

 base, rounded at the apex. Flowers: in slender racemes ; standard equal- 

 lino^ the win<;s and keel. Xot indiijenous. 



