50 Notes on some of the 



ER YTHRONIUM.—L. 



Erythroniuni Americanum — Sm. Yellow dogstooth 



Violet. 



" Leaves lanceolate, spotted. Petals oblong lanceolate, obtuse at the point. 



A small bulbous plant, bearing a scape six or eight inches 

 high, terminated by one handsome nodding flower ; petals 

 yellow, beautifully veined and rolled back. Leaves 

 generally two or three from the root, smooth and marked 

 with numerous dark spots, which afterwards disappear. 

 Bulb small and deeply seated in the ground. 



This beautiful little plant is found in great abundance 

 about Quebec, in moist shady situations, shewing its hand- 

 some flower among the first in spring. 



UVULARIA.—L. 



Uvularia perfoliata — L. Perfoliate Bellwort. 



" Leaves perfoliate, elliptic, obtuse. Corolla campanulate, granular, scabrous 

 within. Anthers cuspidate." 



A herbaceous perennial plant, about fifteen inches high : 

 stem simple, forked at top; bearing a single pendulous 

 flower from the end of one of the branches ; petals pale 

 yellow, narrov/, not spreading out. Leaves closely veined 

 and ending in a small point. Flowers in May. Grows on 

 the side of the hill at Marchmont. 



Uvularia grandiflora — Ssi. Great Bellwort. 



" Leaves perfoliate, oblong, acute. Petals smooth within. Anthers 



without awns." 



This species resembles the preceding one, but the flowers 

 are miich larger and of a deeper yellow. Grows about 

 Montreal. 



