YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 
in size. The small, delicate flower has from five to 
seven long-pointed and spreading lobes. They are 
bright yellow, edged with red, and frequently and 
finely streaked, or sparingly spotted. The five erect 
yellowish stamens are clustered around the pistil and 
project beyond the corolla. They are tipped with 
purple, and there is a tiny circle of this colour at their 
base. The tips of the five-parted green calyx show 
between the corolla lobes. The flowers are set on 
hair-like stems, one of which starts from the axil of 
each leaf. This species is rather common from 
Georgia and Illinois to Canada. 
BULB-BEARING LOOSESTRIFE 
Lysimachia terréstris. Primrose Family. 
The long, slender yellow wands of this Loosestrife 
brighten our swamps and moist thickets from July 
to September. The smooth, hollow leafy stalk is 
usually branched near the top, and grows less than 
two feet in height. The long, narrow, lance-shaped 
leaves are set in opposite, alternating pairs, and are 
thickly covered with tiny, black, oblong dots. They 
are thin, smooth and toothless. After flowering, this 
plant often bears long bulblets or curiously modified 
branches, in the axils of the leaves. The yellow 
starlike flowers are very similar to those of the Four- 
leaved species, but the divisions are more deeply cut 
and narrower, and the slender tips are slightly cur- 
ling. They are conspicuously lined and marked with 
reddish dashes, and at the base of each division there 
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