I02 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



straight out of the ground, and has stout stems which are 

 leafy all the way from the base to the slender flower 

 racemes. These racemes are composed of from five to fif- 

 teen little starry blossoms, each one having a white six- 

 parted perianth. The leaves are of a whitish-green hue, 

 and the fruit is a bright red berry clothed with purple. 



FAIRY BELLS 



Disponun trachycarpum. Lily Family 



Leaves: alternate, ovate or oval, acute at the apex, rounded at the 

 base, five-to-eleven nerved, sessile. Flowers: terminal, one to three on 

 long pedicels, greenish-white or greenish-yellow ; perianth narrowly cam- 

 panulate, its six segments narrowly oblong, acute, little, spreading; sta- 

 mens six, hypogynous; style slender, three-lobed. Fruit: berry rough- 

 ened, depressed-globose. 



* The Fairy Bells have a berry with a rough coat ; it is 

 apparently leathery rather than pulpy, and contains from 

 four to eighteen seeds. This plant is not a real shrub, but 

 is a shrub-like herb with slender rootstocks, and branching 

 stems that are scaly below and leafy above. It usually 

 grows in the dense woods and attains an average height of 

 two feet. The leaves, which somewhat resemble those of 

 Streptopus amplexifoliiis, are oval and strongly nerved, very 

 pointed at the apex and rounded at the base. The flowers 

 usually grow in twos or threes at the ends of the slender 

 wand-like branches, where they hang pendent on their 

 thready stalks. They are creamy or greenish-yellow in 

 hue, and have a floral cup that is cut into six equal narrow 

 segments and holds six long stamens, tipped by large oblong 

 anthers, and a three-lobed style. 



Disponun oreganum, or Woolly Disporum, is diffusely 

 branched, the stems being woolly above. The leaves are 



