110 WILD FLOWER PRESERVATION 



nodding and the description tells you its color 

 is "crimson-pink"; also the leaves are grass- 

 like. The Star-of -Bethlehem has several 

 flowers on the same stem and again the leaves 

 are narrow: leaves and color of flowers are 

 wrong in the Day Lily : the Wild Onions have 

 clusters of small flowers which are sometimes 

 replaced by tiny bulbs. 



Then you turn the page (54) and there is a 

 plant that agrees in every particular with the 

 one in your hand. Here are same oval, 

 poijated, mottled leaves, the slender, naked 

 stem and the single nodding flower with 

 its six divisions and the six stamens and the 

 single pistil within. Your plant is the Yellow 

 Adder's Tongue or (a very poor name) Dog's- 

 tooth Violet. 



You might, of course, have found it more 

 quickly by beginning at the beginning; but I 

 have taken you through nearly all of the Field 

 Book backwards so that you might learn as 

 much as possible before you came to the plant 

 you wanted to identify. You have missed 

 only a few of the Lily Family, the Arums and 

 Cat-tails and it will be a small matter to look 



