YELLOW OR YELLOWISH FLOWERS 
King Devil {Hieracium -pratense). Composite family. 
June to August. 
A perennial with slender stem, one and one-half feet high, 
bearing one to three leaves. The basal leaves have fine prickles 
on both sides. The fiower-heads resemble small black-hairy 
dandelions clustered at the top. Not south of New York. The 
specimen drawn was found in eastern Maine, along with H. 
florihundum, with only one leaf on the stem near the base and 
leaves only hairy on their edges. From the Greek for hawk. 
Rattlesnake-weed {Hieracium venosum). Composite 
family. May to October. 
This species has a leafless stem averaging two feet. The 
flower-heads, like small dandelions, are in a loose open cluster 
at the end of the forking stem. The leaves, several inches long 
with hairy edges, are almost without teeth and have purple 
marking; they are somewhat woolly underneath. Found in dry 
woods. 
GROUP XI 
Leaves from root only, simple. Flowers not composite. 
Golden Club (Orontium aquaticum). Arum family. April, May. 
A leafless stem, six inches to two feet long, protrudes from 
the water and ends in a spike (spadix) an inch or two long, of 
minute perfect flowers, with a spathe that soon withers. The 
lower flowers have six scale-like sepals and six stamens; the 
upper have four of each. The leaf has a parallel-veined blade, 
sometimes a foot long, without teeth, narrowing to a long leaf- 
stalk at the base. Ponds. Named from the river Orontes in Syria. 
Blackberry Lily (Belamcanda chinensis) . Iris family. June, July. 
A perennial, one and one-half to three feet high, its orange- 
yellow flower, purple-spotted, having three petals, three sepals, 
and three stamens united at the bottom. Open woods, etc. 
Connecticut, South and West. (See cut on p. 361.) 
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