STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 



BED BANEBERRY, RED COHOSH Actcea spicata (L.), var. 

 rubra (Gray). 



The Bed Cohosh is a larger plant than the Blue Cohosh, 

 with foliage coarsely veined, pointed in the divisions, of a 

 full green, sharply cleft, and toothed; flowers white in a 

 close-tufted terminal raceme. The berries when ripe are 

 oval, shining, of a deep red, set on slender stalks; it grows 

 in daonp, rich woods. 



WHITE COHOSH Actcea alba (Bigel.). 



This is a striking-looking plant when in ripe fruit; the 

 berries are white and shining, set on rose-red fleshy foot- 

 stalks; the plant is branching and inclined to fall prostrate 

 from the weight of the long-stalked cluster of heavy fruit. 

 In some of its peculiar characteristics it seems to resemble 

 the Blue Cohosh; the Indian herbalists evidently con- 

 sidered they were of the same nature. In none of these 

 plants is the fruit edible. 



BELLWORT WOOD DAFFODIL Uvularia grandiflora 

 (Smith). 



(PLATE II.) 



" Fair Daffodil, we weep to see 



Thee haste away so soon, 

 As yet the early rising sun 

 Has not attained his noon. 



Stay, stay ! 

 Until the hasting day 



Has run 



But to the evening song ; 

 When, having prayed together, we 

 Will go with you along." 



fferrick. 



This slender drooping flower of early spring is known by 

 the name of Bellwort, from its pendent lily-like bells; and 



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