YELLOW 



ages. It is said that the Apache Indians so greatly relish it as 

 food, that they scour the country for many days in order to pro- 

 cure enough to appease their appetites, and that the quantity 

 consumed by one individual exceeds belief. The feathery-tufted 

 seeds which form the downy balls beloved as " clocks " by coun- 

 try children, are delicately and beautifully adapted to dissemina- 

 tion by the wind, which ingenious arrangement partly accounts 

 for the plant's wide range. The common name is a corruption 

 of the French dent de lion. There is a difference of opinion 

 as to which part of the plant is supposed to resemble a lion's 

 tooth. Some fancy the jagged leaves gave rise to the name, 

 while others claim that it refers to the yellow flowers, which they 

 liken to the golden teeth of the heraldic lion. In nearly every 

 European country the plant bears a name of similar signification. 



POVERTY-GRASS. 



Hudsonia tomentosa. Rock-rose Family. 



"Bushy, heath-like little shrubs, seldom a foot high." (Gray.) Leaves. 

 Small, oval or narrowly oblong, pressed close to the stem. Flowers. 

 Bright yellow, small, numerous, crowded along the upper part of the branches. 

 Calyx. Of five sepals, the two outer much smaller. Corolla. Of five petals. 

 Stamens. Nine to thirty. Pistil. One, with a long and slender style. 



In early summer many of the sand-hills along the New Eng- 

 land coast are bright with the yellow flowers of this hoary little 

 shrub. It is also found as far south as Maryland and near the 

 Great Lakes. Each blossom endures for a single day only. The 

 plant's popular name is due to its economical habit of utilizing 

 sandy unproductive soil where little else will flourish. 



BUSH-HONEYSUCKLE. 



Diervilla trifida. Honeysuckle Family. 



An upright shrub from one to four feet high. Leaves. Opposite, ob- 

 long, taper-pointed. Flowers. Yellow, sometimes much tinged with red, 

 clustered usually in threes, in the axils of the upper leaves and at the sum- 

 mit of the stem. Calyx. With slender awl-shaped lobes. Corolla. Fun- 

 nel-form, five-lobed, the lower lobe larger than the others and of a deeper 

 yellow, with a small nectar-bearing gland at its base. Stamens. Five. 

 Pistil. 



This pretty little shrub is found along our rocky hills and 

 mountains. The blossoms appear in early summer, and form a 



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