2 6 WILD, OR NATIVE FLOWERS. 



The root (or rhizome) is white, fleshy and tuberous. The Belhvort 

 is common in rich shady woods and grassy thickets, and on moist 

 alluvial soil on the banks of streams, where it attains to the height of 

 two feet. It is an elegant, but not very showy flower — remarkable 

 more for its graceful pendant straw-coloured or pale yellow blossoms, 

 than for its brilliancy. It belongs to a sub-order of the Lily tribe. 

 There are three species in Canada — Uvidaria grandiflora, U. perfoliata 

 and U. sessilifolia. 



Adder's-Tongue — Dog's-Tooth Violet. 

 Ei-\thronium Americauiiin (Smith). 



"And spot'ed Adders-tongue with drooping bell, 

 Greeting the new-ljorn spring." 



In rich black mould, on the low banks of creeks and open wood- 

 lands, large beds of these elegant Lilies may be seen piercing the softened 

 ground in the month of April ; the broad lanceolate leaves are beauti- 

 fully clouded with purple or reddish brown, and sometimes with milky 

 white. Each bulb of the second year's growth produces two leaves, and 

 between these rises a round naked scape, (or flower stem), terminated 

 by a drooping yellow bell. The unfolded bud is striped with lines of 

 dark purple. A few hours of sunshine and warm wind soon expand the 

 perianth, which is composed of six coloured recurved segments, which 

 form a lily-like turban-shai)ed flower ; each segment grooved, and 

 spotted at the base, with oblong purplish brown dots. The outer 

 surfaces of three of the coloured flower leaves are marked with dark 

 lines. The stamens are six ; anthers oblong ; pollen of a brick-red, or 

 dull orange color, varying to yellow. The style is club-shaped ; stigmas 

 three, united. 



This elegant Yellow Lily bends downward when expanded, as if to 

 hide its glories from the full glare of the sunlight. The clouded leaves 

 are of an oily smoothness, resisting the moisture of rain and dew. This 

 is one of the most elegant of our native Lilies and well worth cultivation. 

 It blossoms early in May or late in April, and we hail it with gladness 

 when it brightens us with a graceful golden bell at the edge of the 

 dark forest. 



The name Dog's-tooth Violet seems very inappropriate. The 

 pointed segments of the bell may have suggested the resemblance to 

 the tooth of a dog ; but it is difficult to trace any analogy between this 

 flower and the Violet, no two plants presenting greater dissimiliarty of 

 form or habit thin the Lilyaai the Violet, thougli often blendjd in the 



