YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 
seed pod succeeds them. One or two flowers hang 
from the end of the branches at first, but as the latter 
continues to lengthen, they may be found later on, 
appearing opposite the leaves. This Bellwort is 
found in woods and thickets from New Brunswick and 
Ontario to Minnesota, and south to Florida and 
Arkansas. Dedicated to William Oakes, a New Eng. 
land botanist, who died in 1848. 
TURK’S CAP LILY 
Lilium supérbum. Lily Family. 
The Turk’s Cap is one of the loveliest and most 
graceful of our handsomest native wild flowers. It 
is sometimes confused with the Meadow Lily, but is a 
later-blooming, and much taller-growing species, with 
the parts of its widely spreading bells rolled backward 
until their tips often lap over the base of the flower. 
Its flowers are usually more richly coloured, and they 
blossom more profusely. The tall, and very leafy 
stalk grows from three to eight feet high from a round 
bulb, which is borne on a short rootstock composed of 
thick, white, egg-shaped scales. The numerous long, 
lance-shaped stemless and toothless leaves taper toward 
either end, and are three-ribbed and smooth on both 
sides. Usually those on the lower part of the stalk 
are arranged in whorls of from three to eight, while the 
upper ones are close and alternating. From one to 
forty large, beautiful coloured flowers, varying from 
orange to orange-yellow, or rarely red, are borne on 
long, slender, spreading terminal stems, from which they 
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