LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY FAMILY 
CONVALLARIACEAL 
SomE of the most beautiful of the spring wild 
flowers belong to the Lily-of-the-Valley family, 
which is named from the Lily-of-the-Valley so 
highly prized in our flower gardens. The flowers 
belonging to this family have a general resem- 
blance to the Lilies, to which they are closely 
related, but instead of having bulbs or corms, as 
do the Lilies, they have more or less thickened 
rootstocks which may be simple or branched. 
The leaves are generally parallel veined and there 
are commonly three sepals and three petals, 
although in their appearance these sometimes re- 
semble each other, as do those of the Lilies. 
There are six stamens and the pistil commonly has 
a three-lobed stigma. The fruit is a berry which 
is more or less fleshy in its structure. 
YELLow Ciintonia. Toward the middle of 
the spring season you may often come across 
in damp, cool woods in the Northern States good- 
sized beds which Nature has thickly planted with 
the Yellow Clintonia—a member of the Lily-of- 
the-Valley family that always reminds me of an 
orchid. I suppose this is because the large, 
smooth, shiny leaves so closely resemble those of 
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