WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 
texture is fine. The edges are slightly scalloped. 
They are borne on short stems, springing directly from 
the root. The pale, yellow flower is comparatively 
small, and has a very short spur. The side petals are 
bearded, and are finely veined with purple. The 
flowers hang singly on shortened, slender leafless 
stems. The thick rootstock sends out» runners 
during July, which bear inconspicuous buds or flowers 
that never open. ‘They are self-fertilizing, and the 
seeds ripen within the recurved bud. The Round- 
leaved Violet ranges throughout the cooler portions 
from Labrador to Minnesota, and southward to 
the higher parts of North Carolina. 
DOWNY YELLOW VIOLET 
Viola pubéscens. Violet Family 
Scattered about in dry, airy, particularly hilly or 
stony woodland, where the sun’s rays play at hide and 
seek with its flitting shadows, during April and May, 
the cheerful, bright, golden yellow blossoms of the 
Downy Yellow Violet appear, like lingering flecks 
of molten sunshine, entangled among its fuzzy stems 
and leaves. This species is the commonest and best 
known of the Yellow Violets. It has a sprightly, 
upright and spirited air about it, and is the “Slim Jim” 
of its family, for Violets, as a rule, being of the well- 
regulated sort in domestic matters, usually grow in 
neatly grouped tufts. The Downy Yellow Violet 
grows from five or six inches to a foot and a half in 
height, averaging perhaps considerably less than a foot. 
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