NATIVE WILD FLOWERS 
—too many to be here described. Gray describes nineteen 
species of Ranunculi proper, only a part of the plants. 
described being found with us, and there are doubtless. 
many others found in our extensive Dominion not at pre- 
sent named. 
The large deep golden, abundant flowers of the 
MarsH Maricotp—Caltha palustris (L.), 
(PLATE V.) 
are too well known to need any minute description. It is, 
indeed, a splendid flower, and can hardly fail of being 
admired when seen, like a “ field of cloth of gold,” covering 
the low, wet ground with its large leaves of a deep refresh- 
ing green and its rich golden cups—a pleasant sight to 
the eye in May. The leaves were used as a pot-herb by the 
varly backwoods settlers, before gardens were planted; but,. 
through carelessness or ignorance, accidents of a fatal 
nature are known to have occurred through mistaking the 
leaves of the Arisaema triphyllum for those of the more inno- 
cent herb, the Marsh Marigold, or Water Cowslip, as this. 
plant is often called. 
MItREWorRT, BisHop’s Cap—Aitella diphylla (L.). 
This elegant forest flower is found in moist, rich soil, 
among beech, maple, and other hardwood trees. 
We have two species of these plants: one, Mitella nuda 
(L.), rather creeping, with green blossoms, only a few inches. 
in height, and the flowers larger and fewer on the slender 
scape, the bright green lobed leaves spreading on the 
ground. The taller Mitrewort has elegant fringed cups, 
greenish white, many flowers arranged in a long slender 
spike. The term “diphylla” distinguishes it from the low 
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