WILD FLOWERS yellow and orange 



become less noticeable on the lips and hood. The 

 flowers dangle on slender stems and are extremely 

 perishable, and wilt hopelessly when picked. As 

 their flowering season advances, the plants develop 

 self-fertilizing flower buds, which never open — after 

 the manner described under certain of the Violets. 

 The seed pods are very sensitive, and snap inside 

 out upon the slightest provocation, and scatter the 

 seeds to the four winds. For this reason the plant 

 is called Touch-me-not. It may be found from 

 July to October, and ranges from Nova Scotia to 

 Oregon and Alaska, and south to Florida and Missouri. 

 Pale Touch-me-not, I pallida, is a larger and stouter 

 species, similar to the foregoing, and is more common 

 northward. The flowers are pale yellow, sparingly 

 spotted with red, or occasionally they are spotless. 

 The pouch is broader, and the slightly hooked spur 

 is much shorter. This species is found from July to 

 September, and ranges from Quebec to Oregon, and 

 south to Georgia and Kansas. 



ST. JOHN'S-WORT ^y^ 



Hypericum perforatum. St. John's-wort Family. 



The common St. John's-wort comes to us from 

 Europe credited with many virtues, but you could 

 never induce a practical farmer to see anything in it 

 but an obnoxious yellow peril — a vampire weed, self- 

 commissioned to exhaust his soil. The ancients 

 however, who were ever bent on making the best of 

 earthly matters, held it in high repute, as a medicine 



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