WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 
this rather handsome vine should be appreciated. 
Especially in the fall is it attractive, when the dark 
fruit clusters contrast so beautifully with its variegated 
leaves. The tough, round, smooth, green stalk is 
frequently angled and much-branched. It is thorn- 
less, and climbs gracefully in and out, and over and 
under surrounding vegetation, supporting itself en route 
by means of numerous small and twining tendrils, 
which spring from the base of the leaves. The large, 
smooth, sharply pointed, bright green leaves are egp- 
shaped, heart-shaped, or blunt at the base. They 
are tough, thin-textured, frequently downy beneath, 
strongly ribbed and toothless. The arrangement is 
close and alternating, and they are set on short or long 
stems. From fifteen to eighty small, rankly scented, 
yellowish green, six-parted flowers are gathered into 
a half-round floral cluster, which is borne on a long, 
slender stem growing from the axils of the leaves. 
In the fall the flowets are succeeded by a cluster of 
bluish black berries. The flowers are both staminate 
and pistilate, and occur on separate plants. The 
Carrion Flower is common along river banks and 
moist thickets, where it blossoms from April to June, 
from New Brunswick to Manitoba and the Dakotas, 
south to the Gulf States and Nebraska. 
YELLOW STAR GRASS 
Hypéxis hirsiata, Iris Family. 
From May to October our grassy fields and dry, 
open woods are frequently spangled with the little 
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