BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION. 63 



FORGET-ME-NOT. 

 Mertensia Sibirica. Don. 



Smooth and glabrous or nearly so, a foot or more high, rather succulent, leafy; leaves 

 pale, ovate-lanceolate or oblong, acute, two to five inches long, or the lowest larger and 

 broader, minutely ciliate ; (lowers at first clustered ; corolla half an inch or less long, much 

 longer than the oblong, obtuse divisions of the calyx ; the five-cleft limb about half the 

 length of the tube ; stamens protruding out of the throat, and the capillary style early 

 projecting beyond the lobes (Brewer & Watson). 



WOOD-LILY. 

 Erythronium grandiflorum. Pursh. 



Corm narrow, often two inches long ; leaves not mottled, always closely approximate, 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute or acutish and with broad and usually short petioles, three to four 

 inches long, by one to two wide ; flowers solitary, or often in a raceme of two or six or 

 more, yellow or cream color, with a more or less orange base ; segments lanceolate, and 

 somewhat acuminate, strongly recurved, one to two inches long, filaments long and slen- 

 der ; anthers three to five lines long ; ovary and capsule narrowly oblong, narrowing to a 

 short stipe ; capsule an inch long or more (Brewer & Watson). 



AZALEA. 

 Rhododendron occidentals. Gray. 



Shrub two to six feet high, leaves obovate-oblong, sometimes approaching lanceolate, 

 bright green and shining above, minutely pubescent, glabrate, the margins minutely hispid- 

 ciliate ; scales of the flower-bud somewhat canescent ; flowers appearing after the leaves; 

 sepals distinct, oblong or oval, conspicuous ; corolla minutely viscid, pubescent outside, 

 white (sometimes slightly rosy), with the upper lobe yellow inside ; the> narrow funnel- 

 form tube equaling the deeply five-cleft slightly irregular limb ; the lobes ovate ; stamens 

 and style much exserted, moderately curved; capsule oblong (Brewer & Watson). 



