. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. !!t' I 36 WILD, OK NATIVE FLOWERS. The root (or rhizome) is white, fleshy and tuberous. The Bellwort is common in rich shady woods and grassy thickets, anu on moist alluvial soil on the banks of streams, where it attains to the height of two feet. It is an elegant, but not very .showy flower—remarkable more for its graceful pendant straw-coloured or pale yellow blossoms, than for its brilliancy. It belongs to a sub-order of the Lily tribe. There are threp species in Can
. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. !!t' I 36 WILD, OK NATIVE FLOWERS. The root (or rhizome) is white, fleshy and tuberous. The Bellwort is common in rich shady woods and grassy thickets, anu on moist alluvial soil on the banks of streams, where it attains to the height of two feet. It is an elegant, but not very .showy flower—remarkable more for its graceful pendant straw-coloured or pale yellow blossoms, than for its brilliancy. It belongs to a sub-order of the Lily tribe. There are threp species in Canada—Uviilaria grandiflora, U. perfoliata and U. sessilifolia, Adder's-Tongue—Dog's-Tooth \' Erythroniuin Americaniini (Smith). "And spot'ed Ailders-tongue wiih drooping bell, Greeting the new-born ; In rich black mould, on the low hanks of creeks and open wood- lands, large beds of these elegant Lilies may be seen piercing the softened ground in the month of April; the broad lanceolate leaves are i)eauti- fuUy clouded with purple or reddish brown, and sometimes with milky white. Each bulb of the second year's growth produces two leaves, and between these rises a round naked scape, (or flov er stem), terminated by a drooping yellow bell. The unfolded bud is striped with lines of dark purple. A few hours of sunshine and warm wind soon expand'the perianth, which is composed of six coloured recurved segments, which form a lily-like turban-shaped flower; each segment grooved, and spotted at the base, with oblong purplish brown dots. The outer surfaces of three of the coloured flower leaves are marked with dark lines. The stamens are six; anthers oblong; pollen of a brick-red, or dull orange color, varying to yellow. The style is club-shaped ; stigmas three, united. This elegant ^'ellow Lily bends downward when expanded, as if ta hide its glories froiu the full glare of the sunlight. The clouded leaves are of an oily smoothness, resisting the moisture of
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