WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 



plant are easily distinguished wherever it abounds 

 as the Wild Indigo. A blue colouring matter has 

 been made from this plant and used as a substitute 

 for Indigo, but it is of a very poor quality. The root 

 is valuable as a medicine in malarial fevers. It is 

 also a stimulant and an antiseptic, and is used for heal- 

 ing purposes. In some localities the very young ten- 

 der shoots are used as greens, like those of the Poke- 

 weed, but if eaten when too far advanced, serious 

 results are likely to follow. Farmers, especially 

 throughout Maryland and Virginia, have great faith in 

 this plant, and bunches of it are fastened about the 

 harness of their horses to keep away flies. It grows 

 from two to four feet high, and is very leafy. The fo- 

 liage turns black in drying. The short-stemmed flowers 

 have a light green calyx, and are loosely and sparingly 

 arranged along the ends of the numerous branches. 

 The foliage is of a dark grayish green. Wild Indigo 

 blossoms in dry soil from June to September, and ranges 

 from Maine to Minnesota, Florida and Louisiana. 



YELLOW, OR HOP CLOVER 



Trifolium agrarium. Pea Family. 



A pretty and very interesting yellow-flowered annual 

 Clover, coming to us originally from Europe. The 

 smooth, or slightly hairy erect or ascending stalk is 

 very slender and leafy, and grows from six to eighteen 

 inches in height. It is generally found along road- 

 sides and in sandy fields, but my personal experience 

 has found them in infrequent, isolated patches, along 



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