HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



are eaten as " greens," and they make a wholesome and agree- 

 able dish. The true cowslip is a species of primrose. Caltha 

 means golden cup, a suitable name for this bright, pretty 

 spring flower that borders our marshes with gold. In 

 swamps and wet meadows. (See illustration, p. 167.) 



Spreading Globeflower 



TrolUus laxus. — Family, Crowfoot. Color, pale greenish yel- 

 low. Sepals, 5 or 6, petal-like, of a pale greenish yellow, giving 

 the color to the flower. Petals, small, numerous, shorter than the 

 many stamens, indented near the base. Fruit, several sessile, 

 many - seeded pods. Flowers, single, terminal, about 2 inches 

 across, open, spreading. Leaves, alternate, palmately divided, 

 the lower on long petioles, those nearest the flower sessile, the 

 divisions much cut and toothed. 



In swamps from west Connecticut to Delaware and west to 

 Michigan. A white-flowered variety is found in the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



Celandine Poppy 



Siyldphorum diphyttum — Family, Poppy. Color, deep yellow. 

 Sepals, 2, rough and hairy, small. Petals, 4. Style, prominent. 

 Pod, bristly. Leaves, deeply once or twice pinnately divided, the 

 divisions irregularly cut or lobed, all toothed, on long, slender 

 petioles, from the root and on the stem, 4 to 10 inches long, pale 

 green, smooth beneath. Flower peduncles as long as the leaves, 

 borne at the summit of the stem. May. 



Deep, cool, moist woods from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin 

 and southward. Low plants with orange-colored juice, 2 

 leaves opposite on the stem near the top, sometimes a third, 

 and terminal flowers, 2 or 3 in an umbel. 



Celandine 



Cheliddnium mkjus. — (The "Swallow," so called because the 

 flowers appear with the swallows.) Family, Poppy. Color, yel- 

 low. Sepals, 2, soon falling. Petals, 4. Stamens, many. Style, 

 prominent. Pod, 2-valved, long, thin, on slender stalks, valves 

 splitting from below and opening upward. Stigmas, 2. Leaves, 

 thin, pinnately divided, often twice, with the divisions lobed, 

 crenate, 4 to 8 inches long, light green, hairy. 



This is a small-flowered, imported plant found around 

 country gardens. It takes root easily in stone walls or 

 sterile soil, and blossoms cheerily beside the garden-paths. 



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