YELLOW OR YELLOWISH FLOWERS 
GROUP V 
Leaves whorled. 
Indian Cucumber-root (Medeola virginiana). Lily family. 
May, June. 
An upright stem, about two feet high, rises from a horizontal 
white root-stalk, perhaps once used as food. There are a few 
inconspicuous yellowish drooping flowers growing in an umbel 
(with stalks starting from the same place) at the top of the stem. 
They have three sepals and three petals, less than a half -inch 
long, all alike, pale yellowish-green, forming what is known as a 
" perianth," and all curving backward. There are six stamens 
and three hair-like spreading styles. The leaves are in two 
whorls; the lower whorl has five to nine inversely egg-shaped to 
lance-shaped, pointed leaves, without stalks; the upper generally 
only three, egg-shaped, pointed. The fruit consists of noticeable 
large blue berries. The plant was supposed to have great 
medicinal value and is named, doubtless on this account, from 
Medea, the famous sorceress of Greek legend. Rich woods. 
Meadow Lily {Lilium canadense). Lily family. June, July. 
An upright plant, two to several feet high. The flowers (two 
or three inches long) are nodding, bell-shaped, with six long 
spreading points, yellowish with brown spots. There are six or 
seven leaves in a whorl, lance-shaped, not stalked. Meadows. 
The fruit that replaces the drooping flower later in the sea- 
son stands stiffly upright, giving the plant quite a different 
appearance. 
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