TEICYSTIS 



LILY OBDEB 



CLINTONIA 879 



UVULARIA (Bell Wort).— A small 

 genus of herbaceous perennials having a 

 thickish creeping rootstock, and alternate 

 stalldess or perfoliate ovate or lance- 

 shaped leaves, and solitary or twin flowers 

 at the ends of the leafy branches. The 

 bell-shaped perianth has 6 distinct seg- 

 ments, erect or spreading at the tips, the 

 outer ones having a hollow near the base 

 inside. Stamens 6, usually hypogynous. 



Culture and Propagation.— The Bell 

 Worts, which are all natives of N. America, 

 flourish in a peaty soil and are graceful 

 plants in the flower border or rockery. 

 They may be increased by dividing the 

 rootstocks in autumn, and also by seeds 

 sown as soon as ripe in cold frames, the 

 seedlings being grown on for a year or so 

 under protection until large enough for 

 the open air. 



U. grandiflora. — This is the best for 

 garden purposes. It grows 1-2 ft. high, 

 having smooth perfoliate oblong leaves 

 2-4 in. long, and pale yellow bell-shaped 

 flowers produced in spring and early 

 summer, drooping gracefully from the 

 ends of the stems, and opening before the 

 leaves are fully developed. 



Culture dc. as above. 



U. perfoliata. — This is similar in 

 appearance to V. grandiflora, but has 

 longer perfoliate leaves, and rather smaller 

 drooping flowers produced at the end of 

 forked stems. ?7. puberula and TJ. sessi- 

 Ufolia are both species with sessile (not 

 perfoliate) leaves, but otherwise similar. 



Culture do. as above. 



TRICYRTIS.— A small genus of 

 perennial plants with short creeping root- 

 stocks and tall erect stems clothed with 

 alternate ovate or oblong leaves, con- 

 tracted, nearly sessile, or heart-shaped 

 stem-clasping at the base. The flowers 

 are terminal and axillary, having a bell- 

 shaped perianth of 6 distinct lanoe-shaped 

 segments, the 3 outer ones of which are 

 saccate at the base. Stamens 6, hypo- 

 gynous, the filaments uniting into a tube 

 around the ovary. Capsule 3-celled and 

 triangular, with many seeds. 



Culture and Propagation. — The 

 species described below are ornamental 

 and very distinct plants, and succeed in 

 warm sheltered parts of the garden in 

 sandy loam and peat. They flower in 

 autumn, and the blossoms are sometimes 

 spoiled by early frosts, but otherwise the 

 plants are quite hardy and well worth 



cultivation. In bleak parts of the country 

 they may be grown in a cold greenhouse. 

 The plants may be increased by careful 

 division of the rootstocks, also by seeds 

 when obtainable. 



T. hirta (Uvularia hirta). — Japanese 

 Toad Lily. — A handsome and interesting 

 Japanese perennial with stems 1-3 ft. 

 high, clothed with soft white hairs, and 

 furnished with alternate oblong sharply 

 lance-shaped leaves 4-6 in. long, clasping 

 the stem at the base, and arranged almost 

 in 2 opposite rows. Several flowers on 

 each stem appear from August to October, 

 the white lance-shaped petals being beauti- 

 fully decorated with violet or purple 

 spots. The variety nigra has velvety 

 black blotches on the flowers, which are as 

 a rule produced two or three weeks earlier 

 than those of the type, and consequently 

 often escape the frosts which sometimes 

 overtake the latter. There is a form with 

 variegated leaves. 



Culture dc. as above. 



T. macropoda. — A native of China 

 and Japan 2-3 ft. high, with sessile or 

 shortly stalked oblong acute leaves 4-5 

 in. long, smooth above, downy beneath. 

 The yellowish or whitish-purple flowers 

 appear in autxmm and are covered with 

 blackish-purple spots. 



Culture do. as above. 



T. pilosa (T. elegans). — A native of 

 the Himalayas with hairy stems 2-4 ft. 

 high, and oblong, slightly hairy, stem- 

 clasping leaves 4-6 in. long. The white 

 flowers are marked with large deep purple 

 spots. 



Culture do. as above. 



CLINTONIA. — A genus containing 

 about 6 species of pretty little herbaceous 

 perennials, with more or less creeping 

 rootstocks, obovate oblong or broadly 

 lance-shaped leaves, and small flowers 

 with distinct narrow petals. Stamens 6, 

 ovary sessile 3-celled. Fruit a roundish 

 or ovoid oblong indehiscent berry. 



It may be mentioned here that the 

 plants best known in gardens under the 

 name of Clintonia properly belong to the 

 genus Downingia, which see, p. 555. 



C. andrewsiana. — A pretty Californian 

 perennial 12-18 in. high, with broadly 

 oblong or lance-shaped pointed leaves, 

 and deep rosy bell-shaped flowers borne 

 in May and June in umbels at the end of 

 the scape. 



