WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 
immediate vicinity literally carpeted with the peculiarly 
mottled leaves of this beautiful Lily. Here and there 
the solitary, bright yellow, bell-shaped Lily-like flowers 
hang downward, pipe-like and nodding from long, 
slender, upright stems. They have a slight, delicate 
fragrance, and the half-dozen rich, brown-capped, 
yellow stamens stand out gracefully from an equal 
number of recurved petal-like sepals, in striking con- 
trast and pleasing harmony. Inside, near the base, 
the divisions are sharply spotted with rich chocolate, 
and on the outside, they are usually faintly tinged with 
purple. The club-shaped pistil of the rather large per- 
fect flower has its tips or stigmas united. The flowers 
close at night, and remain partly so on dull or rainy 
days. ‘They always face toward the sun, and the outer 
divisions recurve to their fullest extent on brightest 
and warmest days. Everybody loves the Dog’s 
Tooth Violet. Everybody knows it by this misleading 
name. Maybe the “Dog’s Tooth” part originated 
from the shape of the flower parts, having something 
of the outline of the long, pointed, canine teeth of a 
dog. But it is not a Violet at all. It is a Lily. The 
shape and hang of the flowers indicate this. If you 
still doubt it, dig up the plant carefully, roots and all, 
and you will find ample proof in a deeply seated, plump, 
smooth, solid, egg-shaped corm, or bulb at the base 
of the stalk. The bulb is edible, and when roasted 
was greatly relished as a tit-bit by the Indians. The 
bulb and leaves are also used as a medicine for pro- 
ducing nausea. This bulb rests in the ground, some 
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