396 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



90. Large-flowered Bellwort 



U. grandiflbra has a forking stem, with i or 2 leaves, or per- 

 haps more, below the fork. Above, the stem passes through 

 the oblong, oval, or egg- shaped, pointed leaves. Flowers, 

 light yellow, single at the ends of branches, drooping, i to i^ 

 inches long. Stamens longer than the styles, i to 2 feet high. 



Wide range over the Atlantic States. 



91. Mountain Bellwort 



U. puMrula has sessile or clasping leaves, oblong to oval, 

 acute, of a pale bluish green. Like the preceding, this plant 

 forks and bears a single narrow, 1 inch long, bell -shaped 

 flower, yellow, drooping from a slender peduncle. Stem rather 

 stout, somewhat hairy, especially on the forks. Time, May and 

 June. 



Found in mountainous woods in Virginia to South Carolina. 



92. Sessile-leaved Bellwort 



U. sessilifhlia is much like the last species, with oblong, 

 sessile, not clasping leaves, and greenish -yellow flowers, on 

 peduncles i inch long, i or 2 or no leaves below the fork. 

 Time, May and June. 



Range wide, from New England to Georgia. Rather common. 



93. False Lily-of-the -valley 



Unifblium or Maianthemum Canadense. — Family, Lily-of- 

 the-valley. Color, white. Leaves, 1 to 3, one above the other, 

 on flowering stems, ovate to oblong, pointed at apex, heart- 

 shaped at base, with short, thick petioles, or sessile. Some 

 solitary on longer petioles, from the rootstocks. Parallel- 

 veined. , Time, May and June. 



P'lowers small, with a 4-divided perianth, 4 stamens, i style, 

 delicate, in a terminal spike or cluster, followed in the fall by 



