[Illustration: DOWNY FALSE FOXGLOVE: Gerardia flava.] *Yellow Gerardia.* _Gerardia pedicularia._ *False Foxglove.* Found on the edges of dry woods through August and September. The stalk (from 2 to 8 feet in height) is branching, and very leafy, round, and soft to the touch, being covered with fine down. Its color is light green. The leaf is long, much cut into rounded lobes, and bearing a general resemblance to a fern leaf; the texture is fine, and the surface soft, and downy; in color light green. The leaves are placed upon the stalk in pairs. The tubular large corolla spreads into 5 rounded, slightly irregular lobes, and is a little hairy in the throat; color, a pure clear yellow; the pistil is a thread of green, and the stamens are 4 in number; the green calyx is unequally 5-parted. The flowers, on short curving foot-stems, are usually arranged in pairs, springing from the angles of the upper leaves. A fragrance, slightly suggestive of Sweet-Fern belongs to the leaves. This plant is noticeable for the fine texture of its parts; the pointed green seed-pod rising from the frill of the calyx has also a decorative value. All the Gerardias bear the stigma of being “clandestine root parasites,”--they do not therefore seem worthy namesakes of the honest, nature-loving old Herbalist, Gerarde, who lived in the days when botanists wrote plain English. According to Gray the suckers of the roots of these plants not only fasten upon other growths, but upon their own, thus preying upon themselves. [Illustration: YELLOW GERARDIA: G. pedicularia.] *Slender Gerardia.* _Gerardia tenuifolia._ *Little Gerardia.* Found, during August and September, on dry banks. The erect, branching, and sparingly leafy stalk grows from 4 to 10 inches high; it is slender, and smooth. Green, tinged with reddish-brown. The leaves are long and narrow, almost needle-like; in color green. They are set alternately upon the stalk. The corolla is an irregular bell-shape with 5 rounded lobes, 2 being smaller than the others, and folded over to cover the pistil and stamens; its color is a pale magenta. The 4 stamens are woolly, and yellow-tinted; the calyx is small and 5-toothed, and green. The flowers grow on slender foot-stems along the sides of the stalk and branches. As the fruit ripens the stems and seed-boxes turn reddish-brown. This is a common flower along roadsides. [Illustration: SLENDER GERARDIA: G. tenuifolia.] *Butter-and-Eggs.* _Linaria vulgaris._ *Jacob’s Ladder.* *Ramsted.* Found from July to September in fields, meadows, and roadsides. The very leafy, and slightly branching, stalk varies in height from 1 to 2 or 3 feet; it is slender, round, of a firm close fibre, and smooth. Light gray-green in color.