NATIVE WILD FLOWERS 
of which is highly acrid and poisonous. The pleasant and 
useful article sold in the shops under the name of Tapioca 
is also made from the Cassava root. 
How well do I recall to mind the old English Arum, 
known by its familiar names among the Suffolk peasantry 
s “Cuckoo-pint,” “ Jack-in-the-Pulpit’” and “Lords and 
Ladies.” The first name doubtless was suggested from the 
appearance of the plant about the time of the coming of 
that herald of spring, the Cuckoo; the hooded spathe, 
shrouding the spadix like a monkish cowl, must have 
furnished the second; while the distinction in color 
between the deep purplish-red and the creamy white of the 
central column or spadix supplied the more euphonious 
term of “Lords and Ladies,” which to our childish fancies 
represented the masculine and feminine element in the 
plant. Of course, we dreamed not of the Linnean system; 
the one was the lord because it was dark, the other the lady 
because it was fair and more delicate. 
SQUIRREL CorN—Dicentra Canadensis (DC.). 
(PLATE VI.) 
This elegant species belongs to the Fumitory family and 
is remarkable for its sweetness, as well as for the grace of 
its almost pellucid white or pale pink bells and the finely 
dissected compound foliage of a peculiar bluish tint of 
green. The corolla is heart-shaped, with slightly rounded 
blunt spurs, the tips of the petals projecting and rather 
more distinctly colored. There is a fine variety of this flower 
with larger, more drooping bells, and of a decidedly pink 
shade. 
In the rich black mould of the forest and in rather damp 
situations this species, known by old settlers as Squirrel 
Corn and by others as Wood Hyacinth, may be found. The 
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