WILD FLOWERS yellow and orange 



texture is fine. The edges are slightly scalloped. 

 They are borne on short stems, springing directly from 

 the root. The pale, yellow flower is comparatively 

 small, and has a very short spur. The side petals are 

 bearded, and are finely veined with purple. The 

 flowers hang singly on shortened, slender leafless 

 stems. The thick rootstock sends out runners 

 during July, which bear inconspicuous buds or flowers 

 that never open. They are self-fertilizing, and the 

 seeds ripen within the recurved bud. The Round- 

 leaved Violet ranges throughout the cooler portions 

 from Labrador to Minnesota, and southward to 

 the higher parts of North Carolina. 



DOWNY YELLOW VIOLET 



Viola pubescens. Violet Family 



Scattered about in di?y, airy, particularly hilly or 

 stony woodland, where the sun's rays play at hide and 

 seek with its flitting shadows, during April and May, 

 the cheerful, bright, golden yellow blossoms of the 

 Downy Yellow Violet appear, like lingering flecks 

 of molten sunshine, entangled among its fuzzy stems 

 and leaves. This species is the commonest and best 

 known of the Yellow Violets. It has a sprightly, 

 upright and spirited air about it, and is the " Slim Jim" 

 of its family, for Violets, as a rule, being of the well- 

 regulated sort in domestic matters, usually grow in 

 neatly grouped tufts. The Downy Yellow Violet 

 grows from five or six inches to a foot and a half in 

 height, averaging perhaps considerably less than a foot- 



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