WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 
plant are easily distinguished wherever it abounds 
as the Wild Indigo.. A blue colouring matter has 
been made from this plant and used as a substitute 
for Indigo, but it is of a very poor quality. The root 
is valuable as a medicine in malarial fevers. It is 
also a stimulant and an antiseptic, and is used for heal- 
ing purposes. In some localities the very young ten- 
der shoots are used as greens, like those of the Poke- 
weed, but if eaten when too far advanced, serious 
results are likely to follow. Farmers, especially 
throughout Maryland and Virginia, have great faith in. 
this plant, and bunches of it are fastened about the. 
harness of their horses to keep away flies. It grows 
from two to four feet high, and is very leafy.. The fo- 
liage turns black in drying. The short-stemmed flowers 
have a light green calyx, and are loosely and sparingly 
arranged along the ends of the numerous branches. 
The foliage is of a dark grayish green. Wild Indigo 
blossoms in dry soil from June to September, and ranges 
from Maine to Minnesota, Florida and Louisiana. 
YELLOW, OR HOP CLOVER 
Trifolium agrarium. Pea Family. 
A pretty and very interesting yellow-flowered annual 
Clover, coming to us originally from Europe. The 
smooth, or slightly hairy erect or ascending stalk is 
very slender-and leafy, and grows from six to eighteen 
inches in height. It is generally found along road- 
sides and.in sandy fields, but my personal experience 
has found them in infrequent, isolated patches, along 
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