Hilir |l0feers, 



WILD HYACINTH.— ir^acmfkus ?wn- 

 scrijjftis. 



Class Hexandria. Order Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Liliace^. 

 Lily Tribe. 



Every child who has wandered in the woods 

 in the sweet months of April and May knows 

 the Blue-Bell, or AVild Hyacinth. Scarcely 

 a copse can be found throughout our land 

 which is not then blue with its flowers, for it 

 is to the woodland and the green lane, in 

 Spring, what the buttercup is to the meadow. 

 Growing near it we often find the beautiful 

 pinkish-white blossoms of the wood-anemone, 

 and before it fades away the hedges are getting 

 white, and becoming fragrant with wreaths of 

 the blooming May ; but the primroses have 

 almost all departed, and the violets are daily 

 more rare. The root of the Wild Hyacinth is 

 round, and full of a poisonous, clammy juice ; 

 indeed every part of the plant gives out more 

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