NATIVE WILD FLOWERS 
by some it is better known as the Wood Daffodil, to which 
its yellow blossoms bear some remote resemblance. 
The flowers of the Bellwort are of a pale greenish 
yellow; the divisions of the petal-like sepals are six, 
pointed and slightly twisted or waved; the flowers droop 
from slender thready pedicels terminating the branches; 
the stem of the plant is divided into two portions, one of 
which is generally barren of flowers. The leaves are of a 
pale green, smooth, and in the largest species perfoliate, 
clasping the stem. 
The root-stock or rhizome is white, with fleshy roots. The 
Bellwort 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 two feet. It is an elegant 
but not very showy flower, remarkable more for its grace- 
ful pendent straw-colored or pale yellow blossoms than for 
its brilliancy. It belongs to a sub-order of the Lily tribe. 
There are three species in Canada—Uvularia grandiflora, 
U. perfoliata and U. sessilifolia. 
Apbpber’s-TONGUE—DoG-TootH VI0LET—LHrythronium 
Americanum (Smith). 
(PLATE III.) 
‘* And spotted adder’s-tongue, with drooping bell, 
Greeting the new-born spring.” 
In rich black mould on the low banks of creeks and open 
woodlands large beds of these elegant Lilies may be seen 
piercing the softened ground in the month of April; the 
broad lanceolate leaves are beautifully clouded with purple 
or reddish brown, and sometimes with milky white: Each 
bulb of the second year’s growth produces two leaves, and 
between these rises a round naked scape (or flower stem), 
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