WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 
lance-shaped sepals. The bright deep yellow flowers 
are frequently an inch broad. The five petals are 
usually oblique or contorted, and are finely notched 
along one side to the tip, in a singular manner. Their 
surface is more or less covered with tiny black specks, 
particularly along the margins. Numerous yellow 
stamens radiate from the three-pronged, light green 
pistil, in three sets. The flowers are grouped in several 
or many open terminal clusters, and they continue to 
blossom throughout the season. When they first 
open they are very showy and attractive, but as they 
fade, the petals wither to a rusty brown. They do not 
drop off, and consequently lend an unsightly appear- 
ance to the otherwise beautiful flowers, with which they 
are freely mingled. St. John’s-wort.is common in fields 
and waste places from June to September, but is less 
common in the South. It is also native to Asia. 
LONG-BRANCHED FROSTWEED. FROSTWORT. 
CANADIAN ROCK ROSE 
Helidnthemum canadénse. ‘Rock Rese Family. 
The study of wild flowers would become a very 
dull and monotonous subject indeed, if it were not for 
the continual panorama of interesting changes that 
it presents when comparing the characters and habits 
of one species with those of another, or even of the 
peculiarities of the same species at different seasons of 
the year. The Rock Rose, for example, has two sets 
of flowers, and a description of its flowers made when 
they first appear would compare ridiculously with a 
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