
138 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 
Squirrel and song-sparrow, 
High on their perch, 
Hear the sweet lily-bells 
Ringing to church.” 
Spring has hardly thrown her green mantle over her shoulders 
when the quaint preacher rises in his pulpit, and in language 
soft and soiemn speaks to the rustling elves and spirits of the 
woodlands. He is a sturdy fellow, and we believe what he says 
must be thoroughly orthodox ; although we lament that we 
have not the quickened perceptions to understand him better. 
But we know. he is beloved by his people, or they would not so 
familiarly dub him Jack, nor would he return among them so 
faithfully. The preacher has a rustic grace about him that is 
quite inimitable; and the magic he exercises on the children is 
only equalled by the charms of the wily Piper of Hamelin town. 
“ Jack-in-the-pulpit has come,” they cry, “ Jack-in-the-pulpit 
has come.” 
“Come, hear what his reverence 
Rises to say 
In his Jow painted pulpit 
This calm Sabbath day. 
Fair is the canopy 
Over him seen, 
Pencilled by Nature’s hand, 
Black, brown and green. 
Green is his surplice, 
Green are his bands; 
In his queer little pulpit 
The little priest stands.” 
STROPHILIRION. (Pate LXX7) 
Strophilirton Californicum. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Lily. Rose. Scentless. In the Sterra Nevadas and May. 
California. 
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Flowers : growing in a many-flowered umbel with a row of bracts underneath, 
Perianth ; short funnel-form, contracted at the throat of four or five oblong 
lanceolate segments. Stamens: three, on the throat, alternating with three 
sterile filaments that are very short and have a lanceolate wing on each side. 
