YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 
feet high. The long and very narrow grass-like 
leaves taper toward either end, and their margins 
are entire, but very rough. They are very small, 
and thin-textured, grayish-green in colour, and show 
three or five ribs. The flowers are very small and are 
closely grouped in small, round clusters at the tips of 
the projecting, wiry branches, which are so graduated 
in length as to form a flat-topped, flowering head. 
The whole top is very free and open, and has a neat, 
trim appearance. The flowers are light coloured, 
and have from twelve to twenty very short ray flowers, 
This plant is found in moist soil in fields and along 
roadsides, from July to October. It ranges from 
New Brunswick to the Northwest Territory, south to 
Florida, Nebraska, and Missouri. 
ELECAMPANE. HORSEHEAL. YELLOW 
STARWORT 
Inula Helénium. Thistle Family. 
Hippocrates, the Greek physician, known as the 
“Father of Medicine,” over two thousand years ago, 
considered this plant important as a brain and stomach 
stimulant, and it has been used ever since for variou? 
ailments. The country housewife has great faith in 
its virtues, and her Elecampane tea is still used 
for coughs and colds, and as a general tonic. It has 
also been used as an antiseptic in surgery. Farmers 
use the large, mucilaginous roots to advantage in 
treating sick horses. The stout, usually unbranched, 
leafy stalk grows from two to six feet in height. The 
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