. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. 300 THE KINDS OF PLANTS F. ovata, Sprena:. {F. aerulea, Sweet). Blue dui) - lily. Fig. 433. Leaves broadly ovate: Howers deep blue, in a long raceme, nodding. !). UVULARIA. Bellwort. "Wild ; Low, erect plants, with short rootstocks: stems with leaves alternate above, sessile or perfoliate, parallel-veined: flowers yellow, drooping, solitary at the end of the forking stems, the perianth elongated, bell-shaped, of 6 similar, distinct, nar- row sepals, each bearing a nectar gland at inside base. Spring-flowering wood plants. U. gran
. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. 300 THE KINDS OF PLANTS F. ovata, Sprena:. {F. aerulea, Sweet). Blue dui) - lily. Fig. 433. Leaves broadly ovate: Howers deep blue, in a long raceme, nodding. !). UVULARIA. Bellwort. "Wild ; Low, erect plants, with short rootstocks: stems with leaves alternate above, sessile or perfoliate, parallel-veined: flowers yellow, drooping, solitary at the end of the forking stems, the perianth elongated, bell-shaped, of 6 similar, distinct, nar- row sepals, each bearing a nectar gland at inside base. Spring-flowering wood plants. U. grandifldra. Smith. Large-flowered Bell- wort. Commonly 1-2 ft. tall: leaves oblong, whitish- 4J3. Funkia ovata. pubescent beneath, and perfoliate: perianth smooth on inner surfaces. Common in rich woods. Blooms a little earlier than U. perfoliata. U. perfoliata, Linn. Smaller than the preceding: glaucous, leaves per- foliate: perianth segments twisted, covered on inner surface with shining grains (papillose): flowers somewhat fragrant, pale yellow. Common in moist woods. U. sessilifolia, Linn. Strnw lilies. {OKki^sio .^e.'<.'<ilifdlin). Leaves sessile, lance-oval, thin, smooth, pale beneath: stem angled, slender and zigzag: flower greenish-yellow, about 1 in. long. Woods. 10. TRILLIUM. Wake-robin Low herbs from deep-seated corm-like tubers: leaves 3 in a whorl, broad and netted-veined: flower single, of 3 colored petals and 3 green sepals, the latter persistent until the angled, many-seeded berry ripens: stigmas 3, often sessile. Plants of earliest spring, growing in rich woods. a. Flower sessile in the leaf-whorl. T. sessile, Linn. Flowers dull purple, the parts narrow, pointed, and nearly erect: leaves sessile, ovate^ often blotched with purple. Pa.,W. and S. aa. Flower stalked in the leaf-whorl. T. grandiflbmm, Linn. Common wake-robin, or birthroot. Fig. 221. Flowers large and white, the peduncle standing erect or nearly so, the petals broadest above the middle (obovate)
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