YELLOW 



varies greatly in its height and manner of growth, flourishing 

 abundantly along the roadsides. The small leaflets are open to 

 the genial influence of sun and air during the hours of daylight, 

 but at night they protect themselves from chill by folding one 

 against another. 



SUNDROPS. 







QLnothera fruticosa. Evening Primrose Family. 



This is a day-blooming species of the evening primrose, with 

 large, pale yellow blossoms and alternate oblong or narrowly 

 lance-shaped leaves, and of a much less rank habit. In early 

 summer our roadsides are illuminated with these flowers. 



CEnothera pumila is also a diurnal species. Its loosely spiked 

 blossoms are much smaller than those of the sundrops. 



EVENING PRIMROSE. 



(Enothcra biennis. Evening Primrose Family. 



Stout, erect, one to five feet high. Leaves. Alternate, lance-shaped to 

 oblong. Floivers. Pale yellow, in a leafy spike, opening at night. Calyx. 

 With a long tube, four-lobed. Corolla. Of four somewhat heart-shaped 

 petals. Stamens. Eight, with long anthers. Pistil. One, with a stigma 

 divided into four linear lobes. 



Along the roadsides in midsummer we notice a tall, rank- 

 growing plant, which seems chiefly to bear buds and faded blos- 

 soms. And unless we are already familiar with the owl-like ten- 

 dencies of the evening primrose, we are surprised, some dim 

 twilight, to find this same plant resplendent with a mass of frag- 

 ile yellow flowers, which are exhaling their faint delicious fra- 

 grance on the evening air. 



One brief summer night exhausts the vitality of these delicate 

 blossoms. The faded petals of the following day might serve as 

 a text for a homily against all-night dissipation, did we not 

 know that by its strange habit the evening primrose guards 

 against the depredations of those myriad insects abroad during 

 the day, which are unfitted to transmit its pollen to the pistil of 

 another flower. 



We are impressed by the utilitarianism in vogue in this floral 



