YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 
found from Quebec to Florida, and west to Kansas, 
Minnesota, and California. 
BUTTER-AND-EGGS. YELLOW TOAD-FLAX. 
BRIDE-WEED. FLAXWEED. 
EGGS-AND-BACON 
Linaria vulgaris. Figwort Family. 
The beautiful yellow and orange flower spikes 
of this extremely common and homely named per- 
ennial are too well known and too little appreciated 
to warrant an extended description. Its colour scheme 
is “‘butter-and-eggs,” all right, at least according to 
the chemistry of the breakfast table and of the kit- 
chen at baking time. This plant is naturalized in 
this country from Europe, and is supposed to possess 
healing powers that country people still regard with 
much simple faith. The flowers have been steeped 
and used in cases of dropsy, jaundice, and various 
skin effections. The fresh plant has been bruised 
and applied as a poultice on boils, and the flowers are 
made into an ointment that is used for the same pur- 
pose, as well as for other skin eruptions. In Germany, 
the flowers are used as a yellow dye. Country folks 
used the juice in milk as a fly-poison. It is a very 
leafy perennial, having short rootstocks, and grow- 
ing erect from one to three feet in height. The usually 
single, slender stalk is round and smooth, light green 
in colour, and has a whitish bloom. The long, nar- 
row, grass-like leaves taper to a point at both ends, and 
they clasp the stalk alternately. The colour is pale 
green, and the midrib extends the entire length. The 
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