. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. IVI/.D, OK XATll'E FLOH' Pink Sai- Monotropn Hyfit\i,(\..) A tawny-roloiircd, s( alcd, Icatlcss species, with several llovvers, covered with soft, pale yellowish-hrown wool, fragrant, and full of honey, which fell from the (lower cups in heavy, luscious drops. I'his plant is of rather rare occurrence, and only found here in i'ine or Hemlock woods, though dray s[)eaks of it as common in Oak and I'ine woods. (iKNTIANS. "Ami llic liliic (K' IIdwit that in
. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. IVI/.D, OK XATll'E FLOH' Pink Sai- Monotropn Hyfit\i,(\..) A tawny-roloiircd, s( alcd, Icatlcss species, with several llovvers, covered with soft, pale yellowish-hrown wool, fragrant, and full of honey, which fell from the (lower cups in heavy, luscious drops. I'his plant is of rather rare occurrence, and only found here in i'ine or Hemlock woods, though dray s[)eaks of it as common in Oak and I'ine woods. (iKNTIANS. "Ami llic liliic (K' IIdwit that in tlio Uri'c/c NiMJs lonely ; of l>cr iK-aulctms race iliu ;—Ihyaiil. This interesting floral family takes its name from dentins, a King of Illyria, who is said to have been the first to discover and be benefitted by its .sanative properties. The root used in medicine, is, I believe, a native of Spain. The .Mpine dentian- so often spoken of by tourists is of low stature, with very large, intensely-blue upright bells; "a thing ot beauty and a joy for ever," even to have beheld it growing in its serene loveliness on the edge of the icy glaciers and rude moraines of the Swiss Ali)S. Of all our native flowers, the dentians are among the most beautiful, from the delicately fringed azure-blue (Bryant's flower) to the fair, pale, softly-tinted. Five-flowered dentian, with its narrow bells and light-green leaves. All arc lovely in colour and form, but none more deserving of our attention than the large-belled Soapwort dentian, known also by the poetical name of —GcntiaiKt Suf'oiiariti, (\..), This is the latest of all our wild flowers, it comes early in the Fall of the year, and lingers with us " Till faiier flowers .iic all decayctl, And Ihou a| p^arest; Li!. J joys that lint;cT as thi'v fade, last are ; On sandy knolls, among fading grasses and withered herbage of our Oak-plains, we see the royal deep blue, ojjen,
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