Nat. Ord. Portilacace.e. 



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SPRING BEAUTY. 



Claytonia Virginica. 



Wlu'ie tlie fire liad siuoktMl and sniouldored 

 Saw the earliest Hower of Sprincr time, 

 Saw tlie beauty of tlie Spring tune, 

 Saw tlic Mislvodeed* in blossom. 



Hiawatha. 



|*I1IS siiDple delicate little i>lant is one of our earliest Ai)ril 

 llowers. In warm springs it is almost exclusively an 

 ^^ April flower, but in cold and backward seasons, it often 

 ^ (^ delays its blossominj;- time till Mav. 



Partially hidden beneath the shelter of old deeayinii; timbers 

 and fallen l)oughs, its pretty pink l)uds peep shyly forth. It is often 

 I'ound in partially cleared beech-woods, and in rich moist meadows. 



In Canada, there are two species; one with few flowers, white, 

 both leaves and flowers larger than the more common form; the 

 blossoms of the latter are more numerous, smaller, and of a i)ale pink 

 colour, veined with lines of a deeper rose colour, forming a slender 

 raceme : sometimes the little pedicels or flower stalks are bent or 

 twisted to one side, so as to throw the flowers in one direction. 



* Miskoileed — Indian name for Spring Beauty. 



