YELLOW 



DYER'S GREEN-WEED. WOOD-WAXEN. NEW ENGLAND WHIN. 



Genista tinctoria. Pulse Family (p. 16). 



A shrubby plant from one to two feet high. Leaves. Lance-shaped. 

 Flowers. Papilionaceous, yellow, growing in spiked racemes. 



This is another foreigner which has established itself in East- 

 ern New York and Massachusetts, where it covers the barren 

 hill-sides with its yellow flowers in early summer. It is a com- 

 mon English plant, formerly valued for the yellow dye which it 

 yielded. It is an undesirable intruder in pasture-lands, as it gives 

 a bitter taste to the milk of cows which feed upon it. 



YELLOW SWEET CLOVER. YELLOW MELILOT. 



Melilotus officinalis. Pulse Family (p. 16). 



Two to four feet high. Stem. Upright. Leaves. Divided into three 

 toothed leaflets. Flowers. Papilionaceous, yellow, growing in spike-like 

 racemes. 



This plant is often found blossoming along the roadsides in 

 early summer. It was formerly called in England " king's- 

 clover," because, as Parkinson writes, "the yellowe flowers doe 

 crown the top of the stalkes." The leaves become fragrant in 

 drying. 



RATTLEBOX. 



Crotalaria sagittalis. Pulse Family (p. 16). 



Stem. Hairy, three to six inches high. Leaves. Undivided, oval or 

 lance-shaped. Flowers. Papilionaceous, . yellow, but few in a cluster. 

 Pod. Inflated, many-seeded, blackish. 



The yellow flowers of the rattlebox are found in the sandy 

 meadows and along the roadsides during the summer. Both the 

 generic and English names refer to the rattling of the loose seeds 

 within the inflated pod. 



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