Yellow or yellowish:--Marsh marigold, creeping buttercup, marsh
buttercup, small-flowered crowfoot, dandelion, yellow woodsorrel,
bell-wort, star-grass, downy yellow violet, pappoose root, lousewort,
prickly ash, hop hornbeam, white oak, mossy-cup oak, butternut, sugar
maple.

Purple or blue:--Common blue violet, trillium (_recurvatum_ and
_erectum_) hepatica, Virginian cowslip (_lung-wort_ or _bluebells_),
woodsorrel, common blue phlox, ground plum.

Green:--The Indian turnip, and several of the sedges.

Pink:--Spring beauty, toothwort, dog's tooth violet, hepatica.

Scarlet:--Columbine.

From this list it ought to be plain that April is a dainty queen, wearing
a dress of cheerful green, a bodice of white, with violets in her hands,
pink in her cheeks, and a single scarlet columbine in her wealth of
golden hair, which indeed comes nearly being the portrait of Dione
herself. Or, as one of the poets has better described her:

_April stood with tearful face
With violets in her hands, and in her hair
Pale wild anemones; the fragrant lace
Half-parted from her breast, which seemed like fair,
Dawn-tinted mountain snow, smooth-drifted there._

In this long list of April flowers--some observers will be able to make
it still longer--there are many favorites. The pretty rue-anemone recalls