BELL WORT. 



(WOOD DAFFODIL). 



Uvular ia perfoUata, 



"Fair Daffodils, we weep to see 



Thee haste awav so soon, 

 As vet the eailv rising sun 



Has not attained his noon. ^ 

 Stay, stay! — 

 Until the hasting day 

 ■ Has run, r 



But to the evening song; 

 When having itrayed together we 

 ' * Will go with you along." Heriuck. 



HIS slender drooping flower of early spring is known by 



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



1^ and ly some it is better known as the Wood Daffodil, to 



which its vellow blossoms bear some remote resemblance. 



The flowers of the Bellwort arc of a pale greenish-yellow ; the 

 divisions of tlie petal-like sepals are six, deeply divided, pointed and 

 slightly twisted or waved, drooping from slender thready pedicels 

 terminating the branches : the stem of the plant is divided into two 

 portions, one of which is barren of flowers. The leaves are of a 



