BELLOW 



ORANGE GRASS. PINE-WEED. 



Hypericum nudicaule. St. John's-wort Family. 



Erect ; bushy ; four to twenty inches high, with wiry, thread-like branches 

 Leaves. Opposite; minute ; awl-shaped, pressed toward the stem. Flowers. 

 Yellow, very small, open in sunlight. Calyx. Of five sepals. Corolla. 

 Of five petals. Stamens. Five to twelve. Pistil. One, with three sepa- 

 rate styles. Fruit. A red or purplish pod. 



This little plant is common in sandy soil from Maine to 

 Florida, and westward as well. Often it grows abundantly 

 along the roadside. 



ST. ANDREW'S CROSS. 



Ascyrum Crux-Andrea. St. John's-wort Family. 



Stems. Low; branched. Leaves. Opposite; narrowly oblong ; black- 

 dotted. Flowers. Light yellow. Calyx. Of four sepals; the two outer 

 broad and leaflike ; the inner much smaller. Corolla. Of four narrowly 

 oblong petals. Stamens. Numerous. Pistil. One, with two short 

 styles. 



From July till September these flowers may be found in the 

 pine-barrens of New Jersey and farther south and westward, and 

 on the island of Nantucket as well. 



COMMON MULLEIN. 



[PI. LXXIII 



Verbascum Thapsus. Figwort Family. 



Stems. Tall and stout ; from three to five feet high. Leaves. Oblong ; 

 woolly. Flowers. In along dense spike. Calyx. Five-parted. Corolla. 

 Yellow ; with five slightly unequal rounded lobes. Stamens. Ten, the 

 three upper with white wool on their filaments. Pistil. One. 



The common mullein is a native of the island of Thapsos, 

 from which it takes its specific name. It was probably brought 

 to this country from Europe by the early colonists, notwithstand- 

 ing the title of " American velvet plant," which it is rumored 

 to bear in England. The Romans called it " candelaria," from 

 their custom of dipping the long, dried stalk in suet and using it 



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