WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 
considered a mere variety of the latter. Its distin- 
guishing features, however, are at once sufficiently 
prominent to remove any doubt as to its identity. It 
prefers moist situations, and is generally found in 
blossom before the Downy Yellow Violet. The basal 
leaves are usually present during the flowering season 
The leaves are inclined to be more pointed and often 
sharply toothed. The flowers are light yellow and 
the spur is very short. Several stems may be found 
growing together, and taken in all, it is a slightly smaller 
plant. This species grows in woods and thickets dur- 
ing April and May, and its range extends from Nova 
Scotia to Nebraska, and south to Georgia and Florida. 
EVENING PRIMROSE. NIGHT WILLOW-=- HERB 
Ocnothéra biénnis. Evening Primrose Family. 
The Evening Primrose is commonly found in dry, 
open fields, and along roadways everywhere east of the 
Rocky Mountains, from June to October. The 
large, bright yellow flowers open in the evening, and 
after exhaling their fragrance for the benefit of the 
night-flying moths, they close the following day, and, 
after hanging withered for a day or two longer, drop 
away. Long before the potato was universally cul- 
tivated the fleshy root of this plant was used as a table 
vegetable. Years ago a strong decoction of this plant 
was highly esteemed for skin affections, and more 
recently a drug extracted therefrom has been com- 
mended in cases of asthma and in whooping-cough. 
Primrose ointment has been used for relieving itching 
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