YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 



found from Quebec to Florida, and west to Kansas, 

 Minnesota, and California. 



BUTTER-AND-EGGS. YELLOW TOAD-FLAX. 



BRIDE-WEED. FLAXWEED. 



EGGS-AND-BACON 



Linaria vulgaris. Figwort Family. 



The beautiful yellow and orange flower spikes 

 of this extremely common and homely named per- 

 ennial are too well known and too little appreciated 

 to warrant an extended description. Its colour scheme 

 is "butter-and-eggs," all right, at least according to 

 the chemistry of the breakfast table and of the kit- 

 chen at baking time. This plant is naturalized in 

 this country from Europe, and is supposed to possess 

 healing powers that country people still regard with 

 much simple faith. The flowers have been steeped 

 and used in cases of dropsy, jaundice, and various 

 skin effections. The fresh plant has been bruised 

 and applied as a poultice on boils, and the flowers are 

 made into an ointment that is used for the same pur- 

 pose, as well as for other skin eruptions. In Germany, 

 the flowers are used as a yellow dye. Country folks 

 used the juice in milk as a fly-poison. It is a very 

 leafy perennial, having short rootstocks, and grow- 

 ing erect from one to three feet in height. The usually 

 single, slender stalk is round and smooth, light green 

 in colour, and has a whitish bloom. The long, nar- 

 row, grass-like leaves taper to a point at both ends, and 

 they clasp the stalk alternately. The colour is pale 

 green, and the midrib extends the entire length. The 



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