WILD FLOWERS yellow and orange 



woods, from Nova Scotia to Minnesota, and south to 

 Georgia, Alabama, and Missouri. 



FIELD, OR SHEEP SORREL. SOUR GRASS 



Rumex Acetosella. Buckwheat Family. 

 In the springtime the children delight to chew the 

 acid foliage of this familiar and so-called Sour Grass. 

 My mouth actually waters now, as I recall the sen- 

 sation produced by the tartness of these green leaves, 

 which I, too, used to nibble. The young leaves make 

 a palatable salad and pot green. It grows in dry 

 fields and on hillsides throughout the entire length 

 and breadth of the land, and is found from May to 

 September. Several slender, leafy, branching stems 

 rise from a tuft of leaves. The rootstock is woody and 

 creeping. The smooth, thick, juicy, long arrow-shaped 

 leaves have two pointed lobes flaring from the base. 

 Their margins are toothless, and they are set on long, 

 grooved stems. The very tiny, six-parted, bright 

 greenish yellow flowers soon turn to reddish or dull 

 crimson, and are gathered in long, slim, curving, 

 feathery spikes which terminate the slender branches. 

 Sour Grass is exceeding common, and is found in all 

 sorts of locations, most everywhere. 



LARGE YELLOW POND LILY. COW LILY. 

 SPATTER-DOCK 



Nymphaea advena. Water Lily Family. 



The Yellow Pond Lily grows rankest in shallow 



water along the margins of slow-moving streams and 



stagnant ponds, where great patches of the large 



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