LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY FAMILY 



This is a plant without a common name. It is 

 found in company with the Bellworts, SmiHcina, and 

 Solomon's-Seal; its leaf is of the same general character 



Downy Disporum. Dispdrum lanuginosum 



as theirs, though it has more of the 

 poise of the Bellworts. The stem 

 rises a foot or more and forks two 

 or three times above the middle. 

 Each of the forks sends out two 

 or three leafy branchlets, which in 

 the blooming season bear at their 

 tips one or two green starry flowers. 

 The green of the blossom is modi- 

 fied by yellow, but it is green; it begins as a bell and 

 ends as a six-pointed star. There are six stamens 

 with greenish yellow anthers and a green style with a 

 three-lobed stigma. The plant is so often mistaken 

 for its neighbors that it is virtually unknown, even to 

 frequent visitors of the wildwood. It may be dis- 



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