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This plant, which is a native of parts of Europe, Asia, a 
treated as a hardy annual. In conditions such as those given it 
at the eee it needs to be grown each year from planted seed, 
ice in its permanent location. 
eee plant is the yellow or Celandine eats 
m (M of 
borne together at the top of the stem, hence the 
specific name. Above these two leaves are ie blossoms in a 
few-flowered terminal raceme. The hairy en 
they are no longer needed to enclose the folded dower ac dis 
close a Sik 2 inches in diameter, made up of four Bete 
and 
uard. e me is four-valved, oval, and tipped with the 
persistent noe. 
n the ean of a copious orange-yellow sap, and in the a 
peara. of its leaves, a ce aoe ine ae resembles that old 
aati the ie er and capsules 
distinct in size a 
Siylophorum dipbyllum is native to the east-central Unite 
States, where it grows in low, moist woods. Our plant flourishes 
. Howeve: 
attempted with the care needed in the treatment of plants of the 
poppy and fumitory families. 
During the summer of 1915, in ee uae of the Garden, a 
group of scurfy gray 1 pp e the only eaniestation 
