. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 491. Funkia subcordata. 8. FUNKIA. White and Blue Day-lily. Medium-sized plants, producing dense clumps of broad-bladed leaves from rootstocks: flowers blue or white, in racemes on scapes, each flower sheathed at the base by 1 or 2 bracts, the perianth-tube long and the limb sometimes irregular. China and Japan; planted by houses and along walks. F. subcordata, Spreng. White day-lily. Fig. 491. Leaves broadly cordate-ovate: flowers large and white, in a short raceme, not drooping. F. ovata,
. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 491. Funkia subcordata. 8. FUNKIA. White and Blue Day-lily. Medium-sized plants, producing dense clumps of broad-bladed leaves from rootstocks: flowers blue or white, in racemes on scapes, each flower sheathed at the base by 1 or 2 bracts, the perianth-tube long and the limb sometimes irregular. China and Japan; planted by houses and along walks. F. subcordata, Spreng. White day-lily. Fig. 491. Leaves broadly cordate-ovate: flowers large and white, in a short raceme, not drooping. F. ovata, Spreng. (F. casrulea, Sweet). Blue day-lily. Fig. 492. Leaves broadly ovate: flowers deep blue, in a long raceme, nodding. 9. 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, narrow sepals, each bearing a nectar gland at in- side base. Spring-flowering wood plants. U. grandiflora, Smith. Large-flowered Bellwort. Commonly 1-2 ft. tall: leaves oblong, whitish-pubescent beneath, and perfoliate: perianth smooth on inner surfaces. Common in rich woods. Blooms a little earlier ' than U. perfoliate,. 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. (Oakesia sessilifolia). Straw lily. Leaves sessile, lance-oval, thin, smooth, pale be- neath: stem angled, slender and zigzag: flower green- ish-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 ri
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