YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 
and Alabama, from May to July. The roots are used 
as a nerve tonic, and the odour is rather heavy and 
disagreeable. The hairs on this species yield an oil 
that is poisonous. 
TUBERCLED ORCHIS. SMALL PALE GREEN 
ORCHIS 
Habenaria flava. Orchid Family. 
This common, tiny-flowered and leafy-stemmed 
Orchid is usually found growing in the same bog 
with the Ragged Orchis and blooming during June and 
July. The rather stout stalk grows one or two feet 
high, and bears several large, alternating, elliptic, or 
lance-shaped leaves. The greenish yellow flowers are 
inconspicuous and numerous, and form a slender, 
clustered terminal spike that bristles with many sharp 
green bracts. The petals and sepals are somewhat 
similar in shape. The former are greenish, and the 
latter greenish yellow in colour. ‘The fringeless, 
spurred lip is a trifle longer than the other petals. 
It is broad, with rounded edges, and has a slight notch 
at the apex, while at the middle of its base appears 
a single tubercle, or palate. This unattractive Orchid 
is found in swamps and wet places, from Florida, 
Louisiana and Missouri, to Minnesota and Ontario. 
YELLOW FRINGED ORCHIS 
Habenaria ciliaris. Orchid Family. 
One of the tallest, stoutest, and most frequently 
found of our most attractive Orchids, blooming dur- 
ing July and August, in wet meadows and along the 
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