330 Yellow to Orange Flowers 



with a soft silky down. The bark on the slender stems is 

 extremely shreddy. 



YELLOW AVENS 



Geum strictum. Rose Family 



Stems: ascending, pubescent, branched above. Leaves: basal ones 

 lyrate-pinnate ; leaflets five to seven, obovate, cuneate, dentate, with a 

 few smaller ones interspersed, the terminal one largest; stem-leaves 

 sessile, with three to five ovate acute segments. Flowers: several, ter- 

 minal, of five petals. 



This is a common plant, with bright yellow five-petalled 

 flowers and large foliage. Each leaf is pinnately divided 

 and has one big terminal segment and from four to six 

 smaller leaflets, interspersed with some very tiny ones. 

 The most noticeable feature is the fruit, which consists of 

 a ball of seeds, each one terminating in an elongated barbed 

 style. 



Geum macrophyllum, or Large-leaved Avens, is very like 

 the preceding species, but it has much larger, coarser foli- 

 age. It also has bright yellow flowers and a bur-like head 

 of seeds, each one of which terminates in the same slender, 

 jointed, hooked style which is a distinguishing character- 

 istic of this genus of plants. 



Both the Yellow Avens and the Large-leaved Avens have 

 lobed and toothed leaves and small clove-scented flowers. 

 They are rough hairy plants and resemble weeds. 



Unattractive as is the coarse foliage of the Geums, yet 

 their primrose-tinted blossoms gleam like jewels of pale 

 gold amidst the dark green leaves, and these redeem the 

 plants from utter ugliness. 



