HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



corolla large, helmet - shaped. Flowers, 3 to 10, in irregular 

 racemes at ends of branches. July to September. 



In ponds, coves, and still water from Maine to Texas, near 

 the coast. I have found this bright - flowered species in 

 Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, near the shore, its yellow 

 flowers dotting the surface of the water. 



Horned Bladderwort 



U. cornuta. — The yellow, fragrant flowers of this species differ 

 from most of the others in that the lower lip of the corolla is the 

 larger, helmet-like, the upper being long, narrow, erect. Spur, 

 long, curved downward. Flower-stalk stout, straight, with few 

 or no leaves and few bladders. Leaves, when they do occur, 

 entire. Scape reaches the top of the water for flowering, 3 to 

 14 inches high, rooted in bogs or the muddy shores of ponds. 

 May to September. 



Newfoundland to Ontario and Minnesota, south to Florida 

 and Texas. There are one or two purple-flowered species which 

 will be noticed. 



Squaw-root. Cancer-root 



Conopholis americkna. — Family, Broom - rape. Color, pale, 

 tawny yellow. Corolla, 2 -lipped, tubular, enlarged at base. 

 Upper lip concave, notched; lower, 3-parted, open. Calyx, 4 to 

 5 -toothed, its tube split down on one side, 2 bractlets growing at 

 the base. No leaves, but stem covered with yellowish, fleshy 

 scales, suggesting a cone, from which the generic name is derived. 

 Parasitic, growing mostly among the decaying, fallen leaves 

 of oaks, 3 to 6 inches high. Stem as thick as a man's thumb, 

 fleshy. Curious, as all of this family, but possessing no beauty. 



Golden Aster 



Chrysopsis fatcata. — Family, Composite. Color, golden yellow. 

 Both disk and ray flowers present, the disk flowers pistillate, 

 both deep yellow. Flowers, large, resembling asters, in loose 

 corymbs at ends of branches. Leaves, stiff, entire, narrow, long, 

 sessile, alternate, crowded irregularly on the stem, hairy or 

 smooth, often curved and scythe-shaped. The plant may be 

 rather delicate in stem and leaves, or it may be rough, woolly, 

 thickened, and misshapen. 8 to 10 inches high. July and August. 



In sandy soil from Massachusetts to New Jersey. In 

 pine barrens. Common. (See illustration, p. 211.) 



Maryland Golden Aster 



C mariana. — Frequently found growing with the above, a 

 smooth, silky plant, with broader, oblong or lance-shaped, acute 



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