20 IDENTIFYING WILD FLOWERS. 



Daffodil. Diam. below tube 2 in. ; length 2 in. ; 

 flower with a long wide tube and 6 sepals with petals, 

 all yellow ; solitary ; stamens 6 ; leaves linear, 6-12 in. ; 

 moist woods ; 10-18 in. (L.) 1150 



Marsh Marigold. Diam. If in. or more ; flower deep 

 yellow, buttercup -like ; sepals 5 or more, roundish ; petals 

 ; stamens many ; leaves roundish, kidney-shaped, 2-5 in. 

 across ; marshy places ; 6-18 in. (v.c.) 27 



Medium. 



Coltsfoot. Heads diam. 1 in. ; flowers with disc florets 

 and many narrow ray florets, all yellow ; flower stalk with 

 small, brownish bracts ; leaves appear later on ; fields ; 

 4-10 in. (v.c.) 698 



Lesser Celandine. Diam. 1 in. ; flowers like buttercup, 

 but with 8 or 9 narrower petals ; sepals 3 ; stamens many ; 

 leaves cordate, 1-2 in., mostly radical ; damp places ; 

 3-8 in. (v.c.) 14 



Yellow Gagea. Diam. J in. ; flowers 4 to 8 in an 

 umbel ; petals with sepals 6, yellow, greenish underneath ; 

 stamens 6 ; 1 radical, linear leaf, 5-15 in. ; 1 to 3 bracts 

 below flowers ; woods ; 4-8 in. (B.) 1168 



Small. 



Wood Spurge. Flower clusters f in. ; flowers and leaves 

 golden green ; 2 bracts below flowers, connate, orbicular, 

 | in., yellow ; stem 6-20 in., very stout, leafy ; with 5-10 

 rays in an umbel having a whorl of leaves below ; leaves 

 obovate-lanceolate, 2-3 in. ; plant with milky juice ; 

 woods ; 8-20 in. (L.) 1062 



Very Small. 



Yellow Alpine Whitlow-grass. Diam. nearly J in. ; 

 flowers clustered, bright yellow ; sepals 4 ; petals 4 ; 

 stamens 6 ; leaves J in., shiny, rigid, resetted ; walls ; 

 2-5 in. (R.) 83 



Common Golden Saxifrage. Diam. J in. ; flowers in 

 flat-topped clusters, gold and green ; leaves opposite, 

 roundish, nearly f in. across ; sepals 4 ; petals ; stamens 

 8; wet places; 2-6 in. (o.) 487 



