. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. r AcaitUscent pftrnMia/, leavfs and scaprs STAR-GRASS. (il«e /torn a ifHittl toiimt I //,-;.rii tit \»mH PtATE 155- HYPOXIS HRECTA. (AMARYLLIS FAMILY.) »«(. itimrjtAal nuh ; lr,ii\ It: p^nanlh-segmrnts six. ) li'MX'. JtMt'af, grais-liir, rxii-i'JtHX Ifii' siupt. iHi I'llliius and S'yen u'ilkoitt, bright ytlloiv within. \ hairy: scapes b<'ari»ff a /r:v lotig-pedicelled MOREAU, to whom we may .ihvays turn when wearied with the dry technicalities of tlie botanists, sure of sympathetic tlioU
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. r AcaitUscent pftrnMia/, leavfs and scaprs STAR-GRASS. (il«e /torn a ifHittl toiimt I //,-;.rii tit \»mH PtATE 155- HYPOXIS HRECTA. (AMARYLLIS FAMILY.) »«(. itimrjtAal nuh ; lr,ii\ It: p^nanlh-segmrnts six. ) li'MX'. JtMt'af, grais-liir, rxii-i'JtHX Ifii' siupt. iHi I'llliius and S'yen u'ilkoitt, bright ytlloiv within. \ hairy: scapes b<'ari»ff a /r:v lotig-pedicelled MOREAU, to whom we may .ihvays turn when wearied with the dry technicalities of tlie botanists, sure of sympathetic tlioUKhts al)out the flowers, has coined a pretty name for this ahnost nameless plant, "The yellow Bethlehem-Star," he writes. " is of a deeper yellow than the cistus, a very neat flower, grass ; The true Star of Hethlehein (what a pretty thouj^ht-freighted name, by the way) is a native of l{nn)]X', but is often met with in grassy meadows and roadsides in the part of North America. It has long, narrow, onion like leaves, and white, almost transparent, six-petalled flowers, each with a green vein in the center. Hesides giving a new tiame to the Star-grass, the naturalist of Walden has furnished ns with a simply-worded portrait of it, much easier of recognition than those cimched in the semi-Ivnglish Latin of the manuals. Hy])oxis Ivrecta is a small plant. The six divisions of the flower are greenish and hairy without, but bright sulphur-yellow within. Nature is frugal. When the flower is upright and closed she puts the bright color on the outside as in the Columbine and i'ink-root. But when the blossom is spread out, the inner side of the (letals displays the chief decoration. ^ w PI^ATB 156. WATER I'LANTAIN. ALISMA PLANT/* GO. (WATER PLANTAIN FAMILY.) HHiiil: rinit\ (I bHHch I'J fibu s/rm thicln-Hfd at basf, smoitt/i: Uairf all radiait. epal^ ttitee. t^ieen . p,t,tli thiee, white : stamens n\iiall\ l|lU about the country more re.
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