YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 



seed pod succeeds them. One or two flowers hang 

 from the end of the branches at first, but as the latter 

 continues to lengthen, they may be found later on, 

 appearing opposite the leaves. This Bellwort is 

 found in woods and thickets from New Brunswick and 

 Ontario to Minnesota, and south to Florida and 

 Arkansas. Dedicated to William Oakes, a New Eng- 

 land botanist, who died in 1848. 



TURK'S CAP LILY 



Lilium superbum. Lily Family. 



The Turk's Cap is one of the loveliest and most 

 graceful of our handsomest native wild flowers. It 

 is sometimes confused with the Meadow Lily, but is a 

 later-blooming, and much taller-growing species, with 

 the parts of its widely spreading bells rolled backward 

 until their tips often lap over the base of the flower. 

 Its flowers are usually more richly coloured, and they 

 blossom more profusely. The tall, and very leafy 

 stalk grows from three to eight feet high from a round 

 bulb, which is borne on a short rootstock composed of 

 thick, white, egg-shaped scales. The numerous long, 

 lance-shaped stemless and toothless leaves taper toward 

 either end, and are three-ribbed and smooth on both 

 sides. Usually those on the lower part of the stalk 

 are arranged in whorls of from three to eight, while the 

 upper ones are close and alternating. From one to 

 forty large, beautiful coloured flowers, varying from 

 orange to orange-yellow, or rarely red, are borne on 

 long, slender, spreading terminal stems, from which they 



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