MAY WILD FLOWERS. 



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The Skunk Cabbage, a beautiful flower^ 

 thus called on account of its loud smell — 

 grows in every wet meadow. It is in shape 

 like a common s^a shell, with dark purple 

 spots somewhat resembling tortoise shell ; 

 the half-buried flower appears to spring 

 ready formed out of the earth — the flowers 

 in the fall are succeeded by a mass 'of red \ 

 fruit. 



^ Th^ Hepatica is a pretty little flower, 

 appearing directly after or almost before 

 the snow has disappeared. It is a lowly grow- 

 ing plant, the leaves and flowers springing 

 directly from the ground, and the flowers 

 appearing before the new leaves ; they are 

 of all shades of color, pink, blue and white. 

 At the Island of Orleans they are found 

 near the ferry; and at Point Levis, near the 

 (upper) railway station. 



Nor must we omit mention of our May 

 Trilliums, Columbines, Dog tooth Violets, 

 Marsh Marygolds — the Buckbean, the Uvu- 

 laria Sesdlifolia and Grandijiora^- the Wild . 

 Ginger plant, the Smilacina Trifolia, the 

 Dentaria, the Ladies' Slipper Orchis, two 

 varieties, of which the most beautiful is the 

 Showy Ladies' Slipper, which grows in th0 

 swamp between the Ste. Foye and Little 

 River' Roads. Such are some of the gems 



