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delicious perfume. Late at evening, when beneath the star- 

 sown purple of the sky you return from making some alpine 

 ascent, the pure flames of these wild Lilies gleam in their 

 leafy setting with a pale golden light, and illuminate the 

 green brink of your path; and when the noonday is glori- 

 fied, and the flag of the sun floats top-masted in the skies, 

 then 



" You see gems in yellow 

 Nodding, each one, to his fellow, 

 Strewing all the country lanes 

 With divinely builded fanes, 

 Where the benisons are breathed but never spoken." 



Erythronium grandiflorum var. parviflorum, or Small Yel- 

 low Adder's Tongue, is not so tall as the preceding species, 

 and has rather narrower leaves and smaller flowers. 



YELLOW BLUE-EYED GRASS 



Sisyrinchium calif ornicum. Iris Family 



Stems: scapes broadly winged. Leaves: much shorter than the 

 scapes, bracts of the spathe more or less unequal, the longer about 

 equalling the pedicels. Flowers: bright yellow, segments of the per- 

 ianth obtuse or acutish, style cleft to below the middle. Fruit: capsule 

 obovate-oblong. 



This plant has a name which is rather an anomaly. The 

 tall, broadly-winged scapes are two-edged, and have a soli- 

 tary, sessile spathe, while the leaves are shortish and nar- 

 row. The bright yellow flowers are extremely attractive. 



LARGE YELLOW LADY'S SLIPPER 



Cypripedium pubescens. Orchid Family 



Stems: leafy. Leaves: oval or elliptic, acute. Flowers: sepals 

 ovate-lanceolate, longer than the lip, yellowish-green striped with purple ; 

 petals very narrow and twisted, lip much inflated, bright yellow with 

 greenish-purple lines, a tuft of white jointed hairs at the top of the 

 interior; stamen sterile, triangular; stigma thick, incurved. 



