176 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 



entrance into art, but never before have they been known to 

 mingle with the sweet world of flowers. The plants, however, 

 would scorn any idea of snobbery ; and it is said with much 

 trepidation that the name of white hearts is infinitely prettier, 

 and it would seem a trifle more appropriate. 



We know that we ought not to pick these quaint blossoms ; 

 every botany in the land will tell us so. We should leave them 

 to be visited by their own insects and to be cross-fertilized, that 

 the species may continue among us. But we sometimes resist 

 doing just what is right ; and sad though it be, it is certainly 

 true that few among us have sufficient hardihood to wander 

 back from the spring woods without just one little spray of this 

 flower. It nods to us all the way home ; it stimulates our inter- 

 est in all that grows ; and it looks so pretty in the little vase 

 that suits it well. 



SQUIRREL CORN. 



Bicuciilla Canadensis. 

 These little pink and green blossoms are nearly related to the 

 Dutchman's breeches. The rootstock bears small tubers that 

 are not unlike grains of corn. The bloom has a delicate, hya- 

 cinth-like fragrance. Their home is in the northern woods. 



PALE CORYDALIS. 



Capnoides sempirvzreJts. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Fumitory. Rose pink and yellow. Scentless. North and south. May-August. 



Flowers: growing in loose terminal clusters. Calyx: of two scale-like se- 

 pals. Corolla : of four closed, cohering petals ; the upper one extending into a 

 short spur. Slaf/ieus : six. Pislil : one. Pod : long and slender. Leaves : di- 

 vided into fine leaflets ; pale green ; glaucous. Stetn : curving ; leafy. 



There is a strong family resemblance between these blossoms 

 and those of the Dutchman's breeches ; and the corydalis is, 

 perhaps, a little more delicate species. The flowers appear like 

 a number of strange sprites that have come from somewhere, 

 nobody knows where, and intend resting awhile on the slender 

 stem. 



