YELLOW OR YELLOWISH FLOWERS 
Small-flowered St. John's-wort (Hypericum mutilum). 
St. John's-wort family. July, August. 
This is a more delicate and rarer plant than Common St. 
John's-wort. An annual, having flowers not over one-sixth of an 
inch in diameter. Low land, blooming from July. 
Pale St. John's-wort {Hypericum ellipticum). St. John's- 
wort family. July, August. 
A delicate, generally unbranched species (perennial), with 
maximum height of one foot and a half. The light yellow 
flowers, similar to those of the other members of the family, 
measure one-half inch across and are few in the cluster. The 
leaves are oval or elliptic, blunt-pointed, without stalks. Borders 
of ponds and damp places. Spotted St. John's-wort {H. punc- 
tatum) is similar, but there are black lines on the back of the 
petals. 
Canadian St. John's-wort (Hypericum canadense). St. 
John's-wort family. July, August. 
An annual or perennial species averaging a foot high, with 
flowers not over a quarter inch broad; stamens five to ten, 
styles three. The leaves are very narrow, from a half to two 
inches in length, with blunt ends. The pods are dark-red, larger 
than the flowers. Sandy ground. 
Orange-grass (Hypericum gentianoides). St. John's-wort 
family. June to September. 
An upright annual with delicate branches, varying in height 
from a few inches to a foot and a half. The little flowers, about 
a twelfth of an inch broad, grow directly on the branches. 
Leaves tiny, growing close to the stem. Sandy soil. 
See also, in Group II, Yellow Loosestrife, Fringed 
Loosestrife, and Moneywort, whose corolla lobes may easily 
be mistaken for separate petals. 
