266 YELLOW TO ORANGE 



Longfellow described Hiawatha's canoe as floating 



" Upon the river 

 Like a yellow leaf in autumn, 

 Like a yellow water-lily." 



This Niiphar^ whose name comes from the Greek word 

 noiiphar, signifying "Pond Lily," grows in still waters and slow 

 streams, where, springing from thick, horizontal, deeply sub- 

 merged rootstocks, the long stalks, which are flattened on the 

 inner side and rounded on the outer side, uphold the gleam- 

 ing floral cups. In many an alpine lake 

 " The bright Nymphcea loves to lave, 

 And spreads her golden orbs along the dimpling wave." 



Nymphcea signifies "a water-nymph," and the botanical 

 family to which this Yellow Pond Lily belongs is called in 

 the Latin Nymphceacece^ or Water-lily Family. 



ARCTIC POPPY 



Papaver iiudicaule. Poppy Family 



Stems: scape erect, hirsute. Leaves: all basal, pinnately lobed or clef t, 

 the lobes linear, acute. Flowers: solitary. Fruit: capsule obovoid, densely 

 beset with erect bristly hairs. 



This is quite an alpine-arctic plant and grows only on the 

 highest summits. It has a flower varying in colour from yellow 

 to reddish-orange, which grows on the top of a slender, very 

 erect stalk, and is formed like a common Poppy, but has only 

 four petals. All the leaves grow at the base of the plant and 

 are long-shaped and lobed. 



GOLDEN CORYDALIS 



Corydalis aurea var. occidentalis. Fumitory Family 



Commonly low and spreading. Leaves: finely dissected into oblong- 

 obovate segments. Flowers: in short spicate racemes; corolla tubular, 

 irregular ; petals four, one of the outer pair spurred at the base, the 

 interior ones narrow, keeled on the back ; spur half the length of the 

 body of the corolla. Fruit : pods spreading. 



