CHAPTER II. 



APRIL AND MAY. 

 To Flowering Wintergreen. 



Bellwort. The flower of the bellwort is rather 



Oakesiasessilifolia. ,^^ insignificant, attenuated little 

 thing, which one would hardly notice unless the plant 

 was picked, and 

 its hidden side 

 (whence depends 

 the bell) turned 

 into view. The 

 flower is cream- 

 color, the upper 

 surface of the leaf- 

 age is pale green, 

 and the under sur- 

 face bluish green. 

 The plant is not 

 often more than 

 eight inches high 

 as it grows in 



Bellwort. 



