Wild Flowers of Lower Canada. . 91 



Valley, the Smilacina trifolia,\hQ Dentaria^^ind. the Streptopiis 

 roseus or Twisted Stem, a rose-colored flower, bearing red 

 berries in the fall, are abundant. There are also the May- 

 flower, the Hepatica, and Symplocarpus, — thickets crowned 

 with Rhodoras in full bloom — a bush a few feet high with 

 superb rose-colored flowers ; — the Kalmia angiistifolia or 

 American Laurel, and the Cypripcdum humiley the beautiful 

 Ladies'-slipper Orchis, the Bunch or Pigeon-berry, the Brook- 

 lime Speedwell, the Blue-eyed Grass, the Herb Bennet, the 

 Labrador Tea, the Oxalis stricta and Oxalis acetosella (Wood- 

 sorrel) one with yellow, the other with white and purple 

 flowers ; — the Ragwoot, the Anemone, so famous in English 

 song, principally represented by the A. Pennsylvania, bear- 

 ing large white flowers ; — the Corydalis, the Smilacina 

 racanosa, resembling Solomon's Seal. Here we light upon 

 a lovely tulip bed ; no, 'tis that strangely beautiful flower the 

 Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia purpurea, so effective in the cure 

 of small-pox;; — the Forget-me-not, (Enothera or Evening 

 Primrose, the False Hellebore, the one-sided Pyrola, the 

 Bladder Campion, the Sweet-scented Yellow Mellilot, the 

 White Yarran, the Prunella with blue flowers, the St. John's- 

 v/ort with its yellow clusters, the object of fair maidens'- 

 pursuit on midsummer eve ; — the Willow Herb, the Yellow 

 Lily, the Partridge-berry, the Indian Pipe, the Ladies' Tresses, 

 the Purple Eupatorium, the Snake's Head ; — and hundreds 

 of other most beautiful flowers, each of which could hold a 

 place in an English conservatory or flower garden, are 

 scattered over the sequestered heights and swampy marshes 

 of the woods of Lower Canada. 



