YELLOW CLINTONIA 



garden ! If you have really seen that flower of the solitudes, you 

 have seen the mossy rock overhanging it, the spruce cones lying 

 thick about, sniffed the balsam, and heard the veery on the moun- 

 tain. — KlRKHAM. 



Noticeably a lily, the handsome shining leaves and 

 clustered, pale lemon-yellow flowers of Clintonia 

 abound in the cool woods 

 of the north. When one 

 has failed to find it in the 

 spring, its cluster of two to 

 four parallel-veined leaves 

 surrounding a stem bearing 

 three to four blue balls, 

 make it noticeable and at- 

 tractive in midsummer. 



The slender flowering 

 stalk rises from six to fif- 

 teen inches high and bears 

 from three to six nodding, 

 greenish yellow, small lilies, 

 arranged in a loose ter- 

 minal cluster. Three sepals 

 and three petals, all alike, 

 six stamens, and a pistil 

 complete the floral outfit. 



Though the flowers nod, 

 the large berries stand erect, and as they begin to 

 ripen they turn a beautiful blue which darkens as they 

 grow older. 



The plant was named in honor of DeWitt Clinton, 

 governor of New York, who, besides being a man of 

 affairs, was an enthusiastic amateur botanist. 



Yellow Clintonia. Clintdnia horedlis 



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