YELLOW AND ORANGE WILD FLOWERS 
of the stalk. It is found in fields, woods, and along 
roadsides, from June to August, from eastern Can- 
ada to Pennsylvania. 
RATTLESNAKE=-WEED. POOR ROBIN’S PLAN-} 
TAIN. VEIN-LEAF. HAWKWEED. HAWKBIT 
Hieracium vendsum. Chicory Family. 
There is no mistaking the Common Rattlesnake- 
weed when you find the small rosette of purple-veined 
leaves. That they have an uncanny, snaky something 
or another about them cannot be denied, and it is 
probably all due to their decorative veinings. I have 
heard time and again that this leaf was used as a remedy 
for snake bites, but never have succeeded in meeting 
anyone who had actually used it for such purpose. 
The juice is supposed by some people to have the power 
of removing warts. The long, slender stalk is often 
solitary, and rises out of the leafy tuft, from one to 
three feet in height. It is smooth and leafless, cr 
occasionally with one or two leaves seated upon it. 
The foot leaves are long oval, with a pointed tip, and 
taper toward the base. The wide, flat midrib is 
hairy on the under side. The usually toothless mar-: 
gins are fringed with fine hairs, and the colour is light 
green. ‘The small, light yellow flowers are somewhat 
like those of the Dandelion, but the disc is more ragged, 
fewer-flowered and less dense. The strap-shaped 
florets have a finely notched, square tip, and from 
fifteen to forty are set in a small, light green cup. 
They are set on the tips of the forks, and form a loose, 
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