WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 
are borne in clusters at the axils of the leaves. They 
rarely possess petals, but they do produce a few seeds, 
and have from three to ten stamens. The calyx is 
hairy, like the stalk, and the lower side of the leaves. 
The long, narrow, oblong leaves are set alternately 
and almost directly on the stalk. Their surface is 
rough, the midrib is strong, and the edges are slightly 
‘curled. Their colour is dark green above and paler 
and whitish beneath. The erect, slightly branching 
and woody stalk grows two feet or less in height. It 
is leafy, and is covered with fine, whitish hairs. This 
plant is found in fields where the soil is dry, rocky and 
sandy, from Maine to Indiana, and Wisconsin; south 
to North Carolina and Kentucky. The Latin name 
is from the Greek, helios, the sun, and anthemon, a 
flower. Frostweed is a popular name given to this 
plant because of its peculiar habit of accumulating 
frost crystals of snowy whiteness late in the fall, which 
bursts the bark near the base of the stem and flares 
out in weird, feathery fantasy, at various angles and 
degrees of formation. 
ROUND-LEAVED, OR EARLY YELLOW VIOLET 
Viola rotundifolia. Violet Family. 
Much less conspicuous, and consequently not so 
widely known as the larger Downy Yellow species, 
the Round-leaved Violet is generally the first of the 
Violets to appear in blossom. Snuggled beneath the 
litter of fallen leaves in the seclusion of cool, hilly woods 
where the ground is moist, but well drained and 
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