NATIVE WILD FLOWERS 
At every joint the Linneza puts forth white fibrous 
rootlets, thus increasing and perpetuating the growth of 
the plant till it forms a tangled mass of leafy branches. 
The leaves are round, slightly crenate, with a deeper notch 
at the top, and together with the younger stalks are some- 
what hairy. They are placed in opposite pairs, from the 
centre of each of which rises a slender fiower stalk, forking 
near the summit and bearing a pair of delicate rose-tinted 
drooping bells, veined with lines of a deeper pink. The 
throat of the bell is tubular, as in the Honeysuckle, and is 
thickly beset with silvery woolly hairs. Stamens four, two 
of them shorter than the others; the corolla is divided near 
the margin into five pointed segments. Seed vessel a dry 
and glandular three-celled but one-seeded pod. 
If planted for cultivation, the ground should be shaded 
and somewhat damp. In an artificial rock-work, sufficiently 
protected from the glare of sunshine and kept moist in hot 
days, it would grow luxuriantly and throw its evergreen 
matted branches over and among the stones with pretty 
effect. The blossoms give out a delicate fragrance, especially 
at dewfall, the scent being scarcely perceptible during the 
noontide heat. 
Our charming Twinflower is very constant in its habits, 
being found year after year in the same locality so long as 
it enjoys the advantages of shade and moisture; it cannot 
endure exposure to the heat and glare of sunshine, though 
it will linger as long as it can obtain any shelter. 
Thirty years ago I found the Linnea borealis growing 
beneath the shade of hemlock trees, among long Sphagnous 
mosses, on the rocky banks of the Otonabee. Last year, 
on re-visiting the same spot, I noticed a few dwarfed 
and starved-looking yellow plants struggling, as it were, for 
existence, but the evergreens that had sheltered them at 
their roots were all gone. 
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