162 YELLOW AND ORANGE 



1. YELLOW FRINGED ORCHIS: 



Habenaria ciliaris. 

 Orchis Family. July — Aug. 



Found in moist meadows, sandy bogs. Ver- 

 mont and Massachusetts to Michigan, Mis- 

 souri, and southward. 

 Flowers — Golden or orange-yellow, lower lip 

 fringed, borne in spike terminating a 

 stem, 1-2 feet high. 

 Leaves — Lance-shaped, clasping. 



2. DOWNY FALSE FOXGLOVE: 



Gerdrdia flava. 

 Figwort Family. July — Aug. 



A plant 2—4 feet tall, found in open woods. 

 New England to Gulf States, west to Ontario 

 and Wisconsin, Iowa, Arkansas. 

 Flowers — Yellow, trumpet-shaped, 5-lobed. 

 Leaves — Opposite, lower ones more or less ir- 

 regularly lobed and toothed. Plant 

 stem and leaves downy. 



SMOOTH FALSE FOXGLOVE : G. virgimca. 

 Flowers slightly larger than those of preced- 

 ing. Lower leaves deeply cut and toothed. 

 Whole plant smooth. 



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