WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 
yellow flowers, which blossom from July i October. 
The familiar oil of Citronella, used so extensively 
for scenting soaps and as a mosquito lotion, is produced 
by an altogether different species, which grows in 
Ceylon. The Horse-balm has a stout, branching stem 
and grows from two to five feet tall: The coarsely 
toothed, pointed-oval or oblong leaves are either 
narrowed or heart-shaped at the base, and the lower 
ones are larger and slender stemmed. They are 
usually in pairs. The numerous flowers are arranged 
in loosely spreading and branching terminal clusters. 
Four of the five lobes of the bell-shaped corolla are 
nearly equal, and the fifth, which is much larger, and 
has a finely fringed edge, protrudes like the drooping 
lip of an Orchid. Two anther-bearing stamens and 
the pistil extend far beyond the corolla. This plant 
is found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and 
south to Florida and Kansas. 
GREAT MULLEIN. VELVET, OR MULLEIN DOCK. 
FLANNEL-LEAF. AARON’S ROD 
Verbascum Thapsus. Figwort Family. 
The Great Mullein erects its tall, stiff shafts here 
and there, like so many floral lighthouses, guard- 
ing our dry fields and rocky hillsides, or guiding 
various insect aeroplanists by the irregular glint of its 
-constantly changing blossoms. The Roman “‘can- 
delaria,”’ 2 torch used in funeral ceremonies, was made 
from dried Mullein stalks dipped in melted suet. 
The leaves were formerly used for lamp wicks by the 
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