YELLOW OR YELLOWISH FLOWERS 
Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris). Crowfoot family. 
April, May. 
A low, early perennial, a foot or two high; stem hollow. The 
flowers, an inch or more across, have five or more broad, in- 
versely egg-shaped, petal-like sepals, no petals. Leaves broad, 
heart- or kidney-shaped, with wavy edges. This is the flower 
that Tennyson says " shines like fire in swamps and hollows 
gray," but not the marigold of " Winter's Tale " {Chrysanthe- 
mum segetum) that — 
" goes to bed wi' the sun 
And with him rises weeping." 
Yellow Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium puhescens). Orchis 
family. May to July. 
An upright perennial, bearing a showy flower with inflated 
lip one and one-half inches long, and a long, brown, spirally 
twisted petal at each side. The leaves are broad-pointed. 
Damp places. From the Greek words for Venus, and a 
shoe. 
Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum hiflorum). Lily family. April 
to June. 
A perennial with curved stem, averaging two feet or under. 
The somewhat bell-shaped, yellowish-green flowers (one-half 
inch long) droop from the axils, generally in pairs. Leaves egg- 
shaped to oblong or lance-shaped, practically without stalks. 
Woods. Great Solomon's Seal (P. commutatum), taller, bears 
more than two flowers in each cluster. Scars on the root-stalk 
suggest the English name its many joints, the Latin. 
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