YELLOW 



that a slender scape rises from its midst bearing at its summit 

 several yellowish, bell-shaped flowers. 



C. umbellata is a more southern species, with smaller white 

 flowers, which are speckled with green or purplish dots. 



GOLDEN RAGWORT. SQUAW-WEED. 



Senecio aureus. Composite Family. 



Stem. One to three feet high. Root-leaves. Rounded; the larger 

 ones mostly heart-shaped ; toothed, and long-stalked. Stem-leaves. The 

 lower lyre-shaped ; the upper lance- shaped; incised; set close to the stem. 

 Flower-heads. Yellow;- clustered ; composed of both ray and disk-flowers. 



A child would perhaps liken the flower of the golden ragwort 

 to a yellow daisy. Stain yellow the white rays of the daisy, di- 

 minish the size of the whole head somewhat, and you have a 

 pretty good likeness of the ragwort. There need be little diffi- 

 culty in the identification of this plant although there are sev- 

 eral marked varieties for its flowers are abundant in the early 

 year, at which season but few members of the Composite family 

 are abroad. 



The generic name is from senex an old man alluding to 

 the silky down of the seeds, which is supposed to suggest the 

 silvery hairs of age. 



Closely allied to the golden ragwort is the common ground- 

 sel, 5. vulgarts, which is given as food to caged birds. The 

 flower-heads of this species are without rays. 



YELLOW LADY'S SLIPPER. WHIP - POOR - WILL'S 



SHOE. 



[PI. LXI 



Cypripedium pubescens. Orchis Family. 



Stem. About two feet high ; downy; leafy to the top; one to three- 

 flowered. Leaves. Alternate; broadly oval; many-nerved and plaited. 

 Flower. Large ; the pale yellow lip an inflated pouch ; the two lateral 

 petals long and narrow ; wavy-twisted ; brownish. 



The yellow lady's slipper usually blossoms in May or June, 

 a few days later than its pink sister, C. acaule. Regarding its 



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