How to Know the Wild Flowers

The book that taught America botany by color: find your flower under White, Yellow, Pink or Blue, and read its name, its haunts and its folklore — the first field guide organized the way people actually look.

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St. Andrew's Cross

Ascyrum Crux-Andreae. St. John's-wort Family. Stem.--Low; branched. Leaves.--Opposite; narrowly oblong; blackdotted. Flowers.--Light yellow. Calyx.--Of four sepals; the two outer broad and leaflike; the inner much smaller. Corolla.--Of four narrowly oblong petals. Stamens.--Numerous. Pistil.--One, with two short styles.

From July till September these flowers may be found in the pine-barrens of New Jersey and farther south and westward, and on the island of Nantucket as well.

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