STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
We find the Orange Lily most frequently growing on 
open plain-lands where the soil is sandy loam. In 
partially-shaded grassy thickets in oak-openings, in the 
months of June and July, it may be seen mixed with the 
azure blue Lupine (Lupinus perennis), the golden-flowered 
Moccasin (Cypripedium pubescens), the large sweet- 
scented Wintergreen (Pyrola elliptica), and other charming 
summer flowers. Among these our gay and gorgeous Lily 
stands conspicuous. 
The stem is from eighteen inches to two feet high. The 
leaves are narrow, pointed, and of a dark green color, 
growing in whorls at intervals round the stem. The 
flowers are from one to three—large open bells, of a rich 
orange scarlet within, spotted with purplish brown or black. 
The outer surface of the petals is pale orange; anthers 
six, on long filaments; pollen of a brick red or brown 
color; stigma three-lobed. 
Many flowers increase in beauty of color and size under 
cultivation in our gardens, but our glorious Lily can hardly 
be seen to greater advantage than when growing wild on 
the open plains and prairies under the bright skies of its 
native wilderness. 
HAREBELL—Campanula rotundifolia (Lin.). 
(PLATE XIIL) 
*¢ With drooping bells of purest blue 
Thou didst attract my childish view, 
Almost resembling 
The azure butterflies that flew, 
Where ’mid the heath thy blossoms grew, 
So lightly trembling.” 
The writer of the above charming lines has also called 
the Harebell “the Flower of Memory,” and truly the sight 
of these fair flowers, when found in lonely spots in Canada, 
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