WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 
separated. The flowers are smaller clustered, and 
it consequently bears fewer berries, which are oval, 
rather than oblong. The petals are distinctly notched, 
and are arranged in a double row, or nearly so. 
GREATER CELANDINE. SWALLOW=-WORT 
TETTER-WORT 
Chelidonium majus. Poppy Family. 
The Celandine is a loose branching herb, sprawled 
commonly along roadsides and waste places, in fields, 
and about old buildings. It has been naturalized 
from Europe, and is often confused with the Black 
Mustard by those who are not familiar with the flowers. 
The light green stalk has a whitish bloom, and grows 
from one to two feet high. It is sparingly hairy, 
weak and brittle, and is filled with a copious orange- 
coloured, acrid juice that stains everything it touches, 
and which is said to be poisonous. Small boys paint 
warts with it in the hope of removing them, and for the 
same effect, their parents have used the irritant 
juice on their corns. The pretty little odourless 
flowers are half an inch or more broad, and are borne 
in small, loose clusters on slender stems. The four 
slightly curved, spreading, oval petals are pure yellow 
and lustreless. The prominent, slender, green pistil 
is surrounded with numerous pretty yellow stamens, 
with yellow anthers. The buds are nodding, and 
the two yellowish ‘sepals fall as the flower opens. 
The thin, loosely textured, yellowish green leaf is 
not unattractive. It is compound, and deeply cleft 
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