YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 



is so weak, that it is often prone to spread rather help- 

 lessly along the ground, in a somewhat scrawly fashion. 

 It often grows a foot or more in length, and branches 

 near the root. The trifoliate leaves are arranged 

 quite like those of the yellow species, but the leaflets 

 are very much more egg-shaped toward the tip, and 

 the indentation is replaced with a minute spike. The 

 bright yellow flower heads are very small, and are 

 gathered in oval clusters, and are set on short, slen- 

 der stems, which spring from the axils of the leaves; 

 both terminally and along the stalk. They are com- 

 posed of numerous delicate little florets that are soon 

 followed by many curiously curled and strongly 

 veined, green, kidney-shaped pods, each of which con- 

 tains a solitary seed that turns almost black as it ripens. 

 The green heads of the seed cases are easily mistaken 

 for flower buds, but it should be remembered that 

 the flowers are, as a rule, always beyond them, toward 

 the end of the stalk. The Black Medic is widely dis- 

 tributed in fields and waste places everywhere, from 

 March to December. 



YELLOW WOODSORREL. LADY'S SORREL 



Oxalts stricta. Wood Sorrel Family. 



Children delight to eat the leaves of this very com- 

 mon Sorrel, which is found from one end of the United 

 States to the other. They often call it Sour Grass, 

 because its agreeable sour taste has a flavour, they 

 fancy, not unlike that of the Red Sorrel, Rumex acetosa. 

 These leaves are useful as a remedy for certain affec- 



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