YELLOW FLOWERS 45 



has a thick stem 1 to 2 ft. high, which bears large, smooth, 

 ovate leaves with serrate edges : the flowers are large, bright 

 yellow, and occur at the tip of the stem : the plant is a native 



82. Yellow Bed-straw. 



83. Yellow Toad-flax. 



of America, but is now quite acclimatised and widely spread in 

 this country ; it flowers throughout summer. 

 85. Yellow Rattle, Rhinanthus Crista-galli, Foxglove family. 



84. Musk. 



85. Yellow Rattle. 



The stem is 1 to 2 ft. high, and bears many pairs of lance-shaped, 

 sharply serrate leaves : the flowers are in a loose terminal spike : 

 the yellow corolla protrudes only slightly from the bladder-like 



