YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 



in size. The small, delicate flower has from five to 

 s^ven long-pointed and spreading lobes. They are 

 Bright yellow, edged with red, and frequently and 

 ffnely streaked, or sparingly spotted. The five erect 

 yellowish stamens are clustered around the pistil and 

 project beyond the corolla. They are tipped with 

 purple, and there is a tiny circle of this colour at their 

 base. The tips of the five-parted green calyx show 

 between the corolla lobes. The flowers are set on 

 hair-like stems, one of which starts from the axil of 

 each leaf. This species is rather common from 

 Georgia and Illinois to Canada. 



BULB-BEARING LOOSESTRIFE 



Lysimachia terrestris. Primrose Family. 



The long, slender yellow wands of this Loosestrife 

 brighten our swamps and moist thickets from July 

 to September. The smooth, hollow leafy stalk is 

 usually branched near the top, and grows less than 

 two feet in height. The long, narrow, lance-shaped 

 leaves are set in opposite, alternating pairs, and are 

 thickly covered with tiny, black, oblong dots. They 

 are thin, smooth and toothless. After flowering, this 

 plant often bears long bulblets or curiously modified 

 branches, in the axils of the leaves. The yellow 

 starlike flowers are very similar to those of the Four- 

 leaved species, but the divisions are more deeply cut 

 and narrower, and the slender tips are slightly cur- 

 ling. They are conspicuously lined and marked with 

 reddish dashes, and at the base of each division there 



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