BUNCH-FLOWER FAMILY 



pale green, shining leaves whose veins run parallel, 

 and when in bloom marked by their straw-colored or 

 pale yellow, somewhat hidden, lily flowers. These 

 vary from an inch to an inch and a half in length, have 

 six sepal-petals indistinguishable from one another, 

 six stamens, and a pistil. 



The Large-Flowered Bell wort is the first to bloom 

 in northern Ohio although it is not so abundant as 

 either of the others. Its flower-bell is the largest of 

 the three and the yellowest; it often measures an inch 

 and a half in length; its ordinary rating of blossom 

 is one to a stem. All the fertile stems fork above the 

 middle and ordinarily bear one leaf below the fork, 

 though sometimes this leaf is wanting. The leaves 

 entirely surround the stem, giving the effect of being 

 strung upon it. 



PERFOLIATE BELLWORT. STRAW BELL 



Uvuldria perfoUdta 



Erect, forked herb, perennial by rootstocks. Rich, 

 moist woods and thickets. New England and Ontario 

 to Minnesota and south to Florida and Mississippi. Fre- 

 quent in northern Ohio. May, June. 



Rootstock. — Short, ^^ith fleshy roots. 



Ste^n. — Leafy, smooth, pale green, ten to twenty inches 

 high, terete, forked above the middle, bearing solitary ter- 

 minal flowers, and one to three leaves below the fork. 



Leaves. — Alternate, oblong, or ovate-lanceolate, acute 

 at the apex, smooth-margined, perfoliate, parallel-veined, 

 two to four inches long, with more or less of bloom. 



Flowers. — Pale yellow, Hly-like, drooping, solitary on 

 terminal peduncles, often hidden by the leaves, rarely 



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