WILD FLOWERS yellow and orange 



this rather handsome vine should be appreciated. 

 Especially in the fall is it attractive, when the dark 

 fruit clusters contrast so beautifully with its variegated 

 leaves. The tough, round, smooth, green stalk is 

 frequently angled and much-branched. It is thorn- 

 less, and climbs gracefully in and out, and over and 

 under surrounding vegetation, supporting itself en route 

 by means of numerous small and twining tendrils, 

 which spring from the base of the leaves. The large, 

 smooth, sharply pointed, bright green leaves are egg- 

 shaped, heart-shaped, or blunt at the base. They 

 are tough, thin- textured, frequently downy beneath, 

 strongly ribbed and toothless. The arrangement is 

 close and alternating, and they are set on short or long 

 stems. From fifteen to eighty small, rankly scented, 

 yellowish green, six-parted flowers are gathered into 

 a half-round floral cluster, which is borne on a long, 

 slender stem growing from the axils of the leaves. 

 In the fall the flowers are succeeded by a cluster of 

 bluish black berries. The flowers are both staminate 

 and pistilate, and occur on separate plants. The 

 Carrion Flower is common along river banks and 

 moist thickets, where it blossoms from April to June, 

 from New Brunswick to Manitoba and the Dakotas, 

 south to the Gulf States and Nebraska. 



YELLOW STAR GRASS 



Hypoxis hirslita. Iris Family. 



From May to October our grassy fields and dry, 

 open woods are frequently spangled with the little 



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