32 A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS 



Flowers yellow. 



Cluster few-flowered, never more than 3-6 flowered, plant 



hairy but not woolly Yellow Star-grass no. lOl 



Clusters more profusely flowered ; plants woolly. 

 Roots red; stamens 3 (see Fig. 102) . . Red Root no. 102 

 Roots not red; stamens 6 (see Fig. 



103) Lophiola no. 103 



Flowers not yellow (greenish-yellow in one onion-like 

 herb, No. 106). 

 Stalks of individual flowers not all arising at the same 



point Star-of-Bethlchem no. 104 



Stalks of individual flowers all arising at the same point 



(see Figs. 107 and 108) Onions and False 



Onion no. 105 

 Flower solitary, never in clusters Stagger-grass no. iii 



loi. YELLOW STAR-GRASS. HYPOXIS. 



Slender grass-like always hairy herbs with star-like yellow 

 flowers in scanty clusters, and basal narrow leaves. Petals 

 united only at the base. Fruit a small pod containing black, 

 angled seeds. (Amaryllidaccae.) The only species is 

 Yellow Star-grass. Hypoxis hirsuta. Leaves about }i 

 in. wide, usually longer than the stalk of the flower cluster. 

 Flowers 1-6, usually 3, the small yellow petals spreading, 

 the flower thus star-like, the outside greenish. Pod about ^0 

 in. in diameter. Summer. In various situations. Maine to 

 Florida, and westward. Fig. 10 1. 



102. RED ROOT. GYROTHECA. 



A stout herb with fibrous red roots. Leaves basal and 

 also a few on the stem. Flowers numerous, crowded in a 

 terminal woolly cluster, yellow. Stamens 3 (see Fig. 102). 

 Fruit a pod. {Haemodoraccae.) The only species is 

 Red Root. Gyrotheca tinctoria. (Lachnanthes tincioria.) 

 Not over 2]/^ ft., the stem smooth below, woolly towards 

 the top. Leaves scarcely 3^2 in. wide, the basal ones not longer 

 than the stem. Flower cluster 23^-43^ in. wide. Flowers 

 nearly 3^ in. long. Pod about J4 ^^- i" diameter. August. 



