YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 



description taken from its flowers a month or two later. 

 That is to say, if anyone who is familiar only with its 

 flowers during May and another one who is familiar 

 with them only as they occur during September, 

 should happen to compare notes, each would believe 

 that the other was describing an altogether different 

 species, so far as the flowers were concerned. The 

 first flowers of the Rock Rose blossom during May, 

 June, and July, and they are known as primary, or 

 petalif erous flowers. They are clear, bright yellow in 

 colour, very showy, delicate in texture, and meas- 

 ure an inch in diameter. They have five large, wedge- 

 shaped petals, which are rounded at the top and 

 pointed at the base, and give the corolla the outline 

 of a hextagon. They are crumpled in the bud, and 

 lap each other when expanded. The numerous 

 orange-tipped stamens are usually gathered together 

 in a singular manner on one side of the pistil, and are 

 pressed back flat against the slightly cupped petals. 

 The large, hairy, green calyx has three large and two 

 small divisions — another peculiarity. The flower 

 is solitary, rarely two blossoming at the same time 

 and it resembles somewhat the flowers of the Primrose. 

 It opens but once, and then only in the bright sun- 

 shine, lasting but a few hours, and perishing over night. 

 It is delicately constructed, and the petals often drop 

 when the flower is picked. A second crop of flowers 

 occurs during August and September, and is known as 

 secondary or apetalous. These flowers are very small 

 and entirely different from the first ones, and they 



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