YELLOW OR YELLOWISH FLOWERS 
Woad- waxen. Base Broom. Whin {Genista tinctoria). 
Pulse family. June, July. 
An upright shrubby plant with erect branches; maximum 
height two feet. The flowers (one-half inch long, in racemes 
one to two inches long) are papilionaceous (resembling pea 
blossoms), the ten stamens united in a tube (monadelphous) . 
Leaves lance-shaped, an inch long, without stalks. Genista 
spreads freely in certain places, for example, about Salem, 
Massachusetts, where it yellows whole hillsides. From the 
Celtic word gen, a small bush. 
Sessile-leaved Bellwort {Oakesia sessiUfoUa) . Lily family. 
May, June. 
A delicate perennial, under a foot in height, with upright, 
slender, and acutely angled stem. There are one or two pale- 
yellow, narrowly bell-shaped flowers, not over an inch long, on 
slender stalks, terminal or opposite the leaves. The leaves are 
lance-shaped, acute at both ends, without stalks or clasping. 
A common plant in open woods. Perfoliate Bellwort (Uvularia 
perfoUata) is similar, but sometimes reaches a height of twenty 
inches, the flowers are larger, and the leaves are pierced by the 
stem, which is round and forked. 
Butter and Eggs (L^*nan'ai)M/gam). Figwort family. Jime 
to October. 
A common wayside, upright, generally unbranched perennial, 
a foot or more in height, whose generic name is from linum, 
flax. The plant has linear leaves and rather showy flowers 
(an inch long or over) in dense racemes. The flowers are two- 
lipped, have a spur, and areof two shades of yellow ; stamens four. 
" In orange cap and yellow skirt 
She stands, this arrant farmer flirt." 
— Margaret Deland. 
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