UVULARIA PERFOLIATA-BELLWORT. 



LINN. CLASS, HEXANDRIA ; ORDER, MONOGYN1A. 

 NATURAL ORDER, SMILACEOS. 



The Bellwort is an unpretending and modest flower, grow- 

 ing in shady and sequestered spots, where, sheltered from the 

 fervid beams of the sun by the thick foliage of some giant 

 oak, it blooms in modest retirement. Its delicate bells droop 

 gracefully amid the dark green leaves, as if it shrunk even from 

 the wooing of the bird and bee, whose music alone stirs the 

 air of its secluded retreat. 



It grows from eight to twelve inches in height, and flowers 

 during the month of May. 



The corolla is inferior, six-petalled, with a nectariferous 

 hollow at the base of each petal ; filaments very short, grow- 

 ing to the anther ; stigmas reflexed ; capsule three-cornered, 

 three-celled, three-valved, with transverse partitions; seeds 

 many, sub-globose, arilled at the hilum ; leaves perfoliate, 



