WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 
purple. The flower heads have many tiny, deep yellow, 
star-shaped florets, that are closely tufted with a flaring 
fringe of from eight to twelve short, recurved deep yellow 
ray flowers, loosely set around and just below them. The 
ray flowers are finely grooved, and their tips are slightly 
_ notched. They are all set in a deep, smooth yellow-green 
cup, and several heads, perhaps a dozen, are comfortably 
gathered in a somewhat flat-topped terminal cluster. 
The roots are used in medicine. Senico is derived from 
the Latin, Senex, an old man, and refers to the silky 
white hairs that succeed the flower. This Ragwort 
is found from Canada to Florida, and Texas. 
DWARF DANDELION 
Krigta virginica. Chicory Family. 
A small annual, bearing tiny, deep yellow or light 
orange-coloured flowers on long, slender, naked stems, 
that rise from one to fifteen inches in height. The 
flowers resemble in miniature, those of the Dandelion. 
They close at night, and when the seed is ripe, they again 
resemble, on a small scale, the “blow-head” of the latter. 
Several stems rise from the pretty little circular tuft of 
long, narrow leaves, and have a remote likeness to those 
of the Dandelion. They are found from April to August, 
in dry, sandy soil, from Texas and Florida to Canada. 
DANDELION. BLOWBALL. LION’S-TOOTH 
‘" CANKERWORT. IRISH DAISY 
Taraxacum officinale. Chicory Family. 
The Dandelion, like the Daisy, scarcely needs to be 
described. It is known from one end of our great 
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