WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 
woods, from Nova Scotia to Minnesota, and south to 
Georgia, Alabama, and Missouri. 
FIELD, OR SHEEP SORREL. SOUR GRASS 
Rimex Acetoséilla. Buckwheat Family. 
In the springtime the children delight to chew the 
acid foliage of this familiar and so-called Sour Grass. 
My mouth actually waters now, as I recall the sen- 
sation produced by the tartness of these green leaves 
which I, too, used to nibble. The young leaves make 
a palatable salad and pot green. It grows in dry 
fields and on hillsides throughout the entire length 
and breadth of the land, and is found from May to 
September. Several slender, leafy, branching stems 
rise from a tuft of leaves. The rootstock is woody and 
creeping. Thesmooth, thick, juicy, long arrow-shaped 
leaves have two pointed lobes flaring from the base. 
Their margins are toothless, and they are set on long, 
grooved stems. The very tiny, six-parted, bright 
greenish yellow flowers soon turn to reddish or dull 
crimson, and are gathered in long, slim, curving, 
feathery spikes which terminate the slender branches. 
Sour Grass is exceeding common, and is found in all, 
sorts of locations, most everywhere. 
LARGE YELLOW POND LILY. COW LILY. 
SPATTER-DOCK 
Nymphaéa ddvena. Water Lily Family. 
The Yellow Pond Lily grows rankest in shallow 
water along the margins of slow-moving streams and 
stagnant ponds, where great patches of the large 
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