. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. iili IV/LD, OA' A'ATIVE FLOWERS. her knowledge, is a s'.ender purple-flowered Gerardia, G. piir/>iin'a which grows on the margin of Rice Lake, among wild grasses and other herbage. It has been said by one who was a diligent botanist and naturalist, (the late Dr. (1. G. Bird) that no Gerardias were found north of the Great Lakes ; but all were confined to the Western and Eastern States ; this however was a mistake. At that date very little was known of the Canadian Fl
. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. iili IV/LD, OA' A'ATIVE FLOWERS. her knowledge, is a s'.ender purple-flowered Gerardia, G. piir/>iin'a which grows on the margin of Rice Lake, among wild grasses and other herbage. It has been said by one who was a diligent botanist and naturalist, (the late Dr. (1. G. Bird) that no Gerardias were found north of the Great Lakes ; but all were confined to the Western and Eastern States ; this however was a mistake. At that date very little was known of the Canadian Flora. It was the trying time of pioneer life in the backwoods, when little heed was taken of the vegetable productions of the country, and even the trees of the forest were hardly distinguished by name, much less were the wild flowers cared for, unless some of the settlers knew of curative medicines to be extracted from the leaves or roots, or of some household dye for the home-spun flannel garments, which were then all that could be obtained as clothing for their families. But to return to my Gerardias, several fine species have been found growing on the Islands of Lake Ontario, and on the banks of the Humber, that fruitful wilderness of many flowers ; and doubtless these handsome showy plants are well known in many localities westward in the Dominion of Canada. The handsomest ot all is G. querdfolia, Oak-leaved Gerardia, a robust, stately plant of from three to six feet in height, with large open- throated orange bells; it is known as False Fox-glove. There are several fine purple-flowered species, and others of paler yellow than (/tiercifolia, with stems coarse, rigid, downy or bristly ; the leaves mostly rough on the surface, and of a dull green. I am not aware of any particularly useful (lualities attributed to this Genus, but as ornaments to our gardens they would prove very attrac- tiveâone of the most suitable is G. pedifithiria, a very much branched species which grows
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