WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 
Labrador and Nova’ Scotia to Manitoba, and south 
to Florida, Arkansas, and Colorado, this biennial 
_ species grows from one-half to two feet high. The 
bright green lower leaves are smooth, thick and rounded 
or somewhat kidney-shaped. The small flowers have 
prominent heads, and drooping, pale yellow petals, 
which are shorter than the reflexed calyx. 
HOOKED CROWFOOT 
Raninculus recurvatus. Crowfoot Family. 
This is an annual species with very acrid and 
blistering juice. It grows throughout the same 
general range as the small-leaved species, and is 
about the same height. It is found from June 
to August. It is common in wet woodlands and 
ditches, and may be easily distinguished by its large, 
hooked seed cases, which are grouped in a conspi- 
cuous cluster. The stalk is thick and hollow, the 
leaves are thickish, and. the pale flowers are small, 
with inconspicuous petals. 
EARLY, OR TUFTED BUTTERCUP 
Raninculus fascicularis. Crowfoot Family. 
A common, early, fine, silky-haired woodland 
species, growing from six to twelve inches high, and 
bearing deep yellow, narrow-petalled flowers, meas- 
uring nearly an inch broad. The flower often has 
six or seven petals. It rises from a cluster of thick- 
ened fleshy-fibred roots, and is found during April 
and May in open woods from Ontario and New 
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