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THE KINDS OF PLANTS 



491. Funkia 

 subcordata. 



8. FUNKIA. White and Blue Day-lily. 



Medium-sized plants, producing dense clumps of broad-bladed leaves 



from rootstocks: flowers blue or white, in racemes on scapes, each flower 



sheathed at the base by 1 or 2 bracts, the perianth-tube long and the limb 



sometimes irregular. China and Japan ; planted by houses 



and along walks. 



F. subcordata, Spreng. White day-lily. Fig. 491. Leaves 

 broadly cordate-ovate: flowers large and white, in a short 

 raceme, not drooping. 



F. ovata, Spreng. (F. casrulea, Sweet). Blue day-lily. 

 Fig. 492. Leaves broadly ovate: flowers deep blue, in a long 

 raceme, nodding. 



9. UVULARIA. Bellwort. "Wild Oats." 



Low, erect plants, with short rootstocks: stems with 

 leaves alternate above, sessile or perfoliate, parallel-veined: 

 flowers yellow, drooping, solitary at the end of the forking 

 stems, the perianth elongated, bell-shaped, of 6 similar, 

 distinct, narrow sepals, each bearing a nectar gland at in- 

 side base. Spring-flowering wood plants. 



U. grandiflora, Smith. Large-flowered Bellwort. Commonly 1-2 ft. 

 tall: leaves oblong, whitish-pubescent beneath, and perfoliate: perianth 

 smooth on inner surfaces. Common in rich woods. Blooms a little earlier 

 ' than U. perfoliate,. 



U. perfoliata, Linn. Smaller than the preceding: glaucous, leaves per- 

 foliate: perianth segments twisted, covered on inner surface with shining 

 grains (papillose): flowers somewhat fragrant, pale 

 yellow. Common in moist woods. 



U. sessilifolia, Linn. (Oakesia sessilifolia) . Straw 

 lily. Leaves sessile, lance-oval, thin, smooth, pale be- 

 neath: stem angled, slender and zigzag: flower green- 

 ish-yellow, about 1 in. long. Woods. 



10. TRILLIUM. Wake-robin. 



Low herbs from deep-seated corm-like tubers: 

 leaves 3 in a whorl, broad and netted-veined : flower 

 single, of 3-colored petals and 3 green sepals, the 

 latter persistent until the angled, many-seeded berry 

 ripens; stigmas 3, often sessile. Plants of earliest spring, growing in 

 rich woods. 



492. Funkia ovata. 



a. Flower sessile in the leaf-whorl. 



T. sessile, Linn. Flowers dull purple, the parts narrow, pointed, and 

 nearly erect: leaves sessile, ovate, often blotched with purple. Pennsylvania, 

 west and south. 



