YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 
description taken from its flowers a month or two later. 
That is to say, if anyone who is familiar only with its 
flowers during May and another one who is familiar 
with them only as they occur during September, 
should happen to compare notes, each would believe 
that the other was describing an altogether different 
species, so far as the flowers were concerned. The 
first flowers of the Rock Rose blossom during May, 
June, and July, and they are known as primary, or 
petaliferous flowers. They are clear, bright yellow in 
colour, very showy, delicate in texture, and meas- 
ure an inch in diameter. They have five large, wedge- 
shaped petals, which are rounded at the top and 
pointed at the base, and give the corolla the outline 
of a hextagon. They are crumpled in the bud, and 
lap each other when: expanded. The numerous 
orange-tipped stamens are usually gathered together 
in a singular manner on one side of the pistil, and are 
pressed back flat against the slightly cupped petals. 
The large, hairy, green calyx has three large and two 
small divisions — another peculiarity. The flower 
is solitary, rarely two blossoming at the same time 
and it resembles somewhat the flowers of the Primrose. 
It opens but once, and then only in the bright sun- 
shine, lasting but a few hours, and perishing over night. 
It is delicately constructed, and the petals often drop 
when the flower is picked. A second crop of flowers 
occurs during August and September, and is known as 
secondary or apetalous. These flowers are very small 
and entirely different from the first ones, and they 
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