394 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



to 15 inches high, bearing on its summit an umbel of 3 to 6 

 open, spreading, bell-shaped flowers, each on a slender stalk, 

 which points upward in fruit. Alternating with the sepals, 

 fastened to their base, are the 6 conspicuous stamens. The 

 fruit is a blue berry, nearly round. 



An interesting, uncommon-looking plant, whose delicate flow- 

 ers strongly contrast with its ample leaves. 



88. White Clintonia 



C. umbellata. — Color, white, often dotted with purple. 

 Leaves, 2 to 5, broad, pointed, parallel-veined, hairy around 

 the margins, and sometimes along the mid-rib underneath, 

 from the root, their petioles sheathing the base of the flower- 

 scape ; sometimes a small leaf on the scape. Time, May 

 and June. 



Flowers, fragrant, in a many-flowered umbel at the end of 

 a scape 8 to 18 inches high. Fruit, a roundish black berry. 



New York to Georgia and Tennessee. On the mountains in 

 Virginia. 



89. Perfoliate Bellwort 



Uvularia perfoliata (from "uvula," a palate, the flowers 

 hanging under the stem, like a palate). — Family, Bunch- 

 flower. Color, pale or dull yellow. Leaves, oblong or lance- 

 shaped, pointed, passing beyond the stem, so that the latter 

 passes through the leaf. Time, May and June. 



Stems low, from 8 to 16 inches high, slender, springing from 

 a perennial rootstock. The ascending branch divides, and 

 bears a solitary flower, which droops under the leaves. This 

 flower is at first terminal, but the branch grows beyond it, 

 leaving it lateral. The flower is 1 inch long, with 6 separate 

 sepals and as many short stamens. Sepals narrow, spreading 

 at tip. Capsule 3-angled, the lobes opening above. 



New England 10 Florida. On the mountams in V^irginia. 



