WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 
become less noticeable on the lips and hood. The 
flowers dangle on slender stems and are extremely 
perishable, and wilt hopelessly when picked. As 
their flowering season advances, the plants develop 
self-fertilizing flower buds, which never open — after 
the manner described under certain of the Violets. 
The seed pods are very sensitive, and snap inside 
out upon the slightest provocation, and scatter the 
seeds to the four winds. For this reason the plant 
is called Touch-me-not. It may be found from 
July to October, and ranges from Nova Scotia to 
Oregon and Alaska, and south to Florida and Missouri. 
Pale Touch-me-not, I pallida, is a larger and stouter 
species, similar to the foregoing, and is more common 
northward. The flowers are pale yellow, sparingly 
spotted with red, or occasionally they are spotless. 
The pouch is broader, and the slightly hooked spur 
is much shorter. This species is found from July to 
September, and ranges from Quebec to Oregon, and 
south to Georgia and Kansas. 
; ST. JOHN’S-WORT 
Hypericum perforatum. St. John’s-wort Family. 
The common St. John’s-wort comes to us from 
Europe credited with many virtues, but you could 
never induce a practical farmer to see anything in it 
but an obnoxious yellow peril—a vampire weed, self- - 
commissioned to exhaust his soil. The ancients 
however, who were ever bent on making the best of 
earthly matters, held it in high repute,'as a medicine 
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