334 Yellow to Orange Flowers 



Its bright golden flowers are finely pencilled in the centre 

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

 mass of small roundish leaves. 



Viola orbiculata, or Round-leaved Yellow Violet, has a 

 thick rootstock with a few fibrous rootlets, mostly rounded, 

 heart-shaped, crenulate basal leaves, slightly hairy on the 

 upper surface; and yellow petals, the lower one being 

 purple-veined. The spurs are short and saccate. 



Viola sempervirens, or Trailing Yellow Violet, has weak, 

 decumbent stems, and spreads by means of long, slender 

 rootstocks. The leaves are mostly basal, and are rounded, 

 cordate at the base and finely round-toothed at the edges. 

 The yellow flowers grow on long stalks, and their petals 

 are sparingly veined with brown near the base, the spur 

 being short and like a sac. This species grows chiefly in 

 burnt woods ; 



SILVERBERRY 



Elaagnus argentea. Oleaster Family 



Stoloniferous, silvery-scaly, much branched. Leaves: alternate, ob- 

 long, ovate, densely silvery-scurfy on both sides, acute or obtuse. 

 Flowers: one to three in the axils, pedicelled, fragrant; perianth silvery 

 without, yellow within, tubular below, the upper part campanulate, four- 

 lobed, the lobes ovate. Fruit: oval, silvery. 



A most extraordinary and attractive shrub, growing 

 from two to twelve feet high and entirely covered with a 

 lovely silver coating. The leaves are small and very 

 crinkled and wavy, and the flowers quite tiny, their bell- 

 shaped four-lobed corollas being silvery on the outside and 

 pale yellow within. The stems, branches, leaves, and fruit 

 are completely silvered over and thus may be readily dis- 

 tinguished. 



