Yellow and Orange 



adapted to bees show butterflies, hawk moths and humming-birds 

 as intruders," says Professor Robertson ; "and this is important, 

 since it enables us to understand how bee-flowers might become 

 modified to suit them " — ^just as certain of the honeysuckles have 

 done. Once the Oriental pink weigelias, grown in nearly every 

 American garden, were thought to belong to the Diervilla clan, 

 from which later-day systematists have banished them. 



The Early Fly or Twin Honeysuckle {Loiiicera ciliata), found 

 in moist, cool woods from Pennsylvania and Michigan far north- 

 ward, sends forth pairs of funnel-form, honey-yellow flowers, 

 about three-quarters of an inch long, with five, regular lobes, on a 

 slender footstalk from the leaf axils in May. It is a straggling, 

 shrubby bush from three to five feet tall. The opposite leaves are 

 thin, oval, bright green on both sides, the edges hairy. Two little 

 ovoid, light red berries follow the flowers. 



Another species, a shrubby Swamp Fly-honeysuckle (L. ob- 

 lougifoUa), found in wet ground and bogs throughout a similar 

 range, blooming about two weeks later, coats the under side of its 

 young leaves with fine hairs to prevent their pores from clogging 

 with vapors arising from its moist retreats. The little pale yellow 

 flowers, also growing in pairs on a footstalk from the leaf axils, 

 have their tubular corollas strongly cleft into two lips. Reddish 

 markings within serve as pathfinders for the bumblebee, who 

 finds so much nectar at the base that a tiny bulging pocket had 

 to be provided to hold it. Sometimes the two flowers join below- 

 like Siamese twins, in which case the pair of crimson berries be- 

 come more or less united. 



" So we grew together, 

 Like to a double cherry, seeming parted." 



One occasionally finds the pink and white twin-flowered Tar- 

 tarian Bush Honeysuckle (L. Tartarica) escaped from cultivation 

 in the Eastern States through the agency of birds which feast upon 

 its little round, red, translucent berries. 



Common Dandelion ; Blowball; Lion's-tooth ; 

 Peasant's Clock 



{Taraxacum Taraxacum) Chicory family 



(7". Dens-lconis of Gray) 



Flower-head — Solitary, golden yellow, i to 2 in. across, containing 

 ISO to 200 perfect ray florets on a flat receptacle at the top of 

 a hollow, milky scape 2 to 18 in. tall. Leaves: From a very 



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