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BELLWORT. 



pale green, smooth, aud in the hirgest species perfoliate, clasping 

 the stem. 



The root (or rliizome) is white, fleshy and tuberous. The Bell- 

 wort is common in rich shady woods and grassy thickets, and on 

 moist alluvial soil on the banks of streams, where it attains to the 

 height of 18 or 20 inches. It is an elegant, but not very showy flower — 

 remarkable more for its graceful i)endcnt straw-coloured or pale 

 yellow blossoms, than for its brilliancy. It belongs to a sub-order of 

 the Lily Tribe. There are three species in Canada — the large Bell- 

 wort — Uviilaria (jmndijlora and U. perfoUata — we also possess the 

 third, enumerated by Dr. Gray. U. sessilifoh'a. 



