166 YELLOW AND ORANGE 



1. PARTRIDGE PEA: Large-flowered Sensi- 

 tive Plant: Cassia Chamaecrista. 

 Pulse Family. July — Sept. 

 A plant 1—2 feet tall, found in dry or sandy 

 fields. Massachusetts to Minnesota and south- 

 ward. 

 Flowers — Yellow, 5-parted, about 1 inch across, 



2-4 from the bases of the leaves. 

 Leaves — Composed of 10-15 pairs of leaflets. 



WILD SENNA: C. marildndica. 



Flowers yellow, divisions 5, 3 forming an up- 

 per lip, 2 a lower one. Leaflets 5-9 pairs. 

 3—8 feet high. Moist soil, swamps. New 

 England to Ohio, Tennessee, and North Caro- 

 lina. 



2. FALL DANDELION: Autumnal Hawkbit. 



Leontodon autumnalis. 

 Composite Family. - July — Nov. 



Found in fields, roadsides. Throughout 

 northern United States, south to Ohio and 

 New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Naturalized 

 from Europe. 

 Flower-he ad s — Yellow, smaller than the com- 

 mon dandelion, on slender, branching 

 stalks, 6-18 inches high. 

 Leaves — Long, narrow, more or less coarsely 

 toothed. 



