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and Arkansas. Except m the coastal region and other sections of the 

 State with sandy soil, this small-flowered bellwort is not so abundant 

 as U. grandiflora and U. perfoliata. 



Large-flowered Bellwort 

 Uvularia grandiflora J. E. Smith 



Plate 20b 



An erect herb with smooth, leafy, forked stem from a perennial root- 

 stock; stem with one or two leaves below the fork, 6 to 20 inches high. 

 Leaves perfoliate, oblong, oval or ovate, pubescent beneath, glabrous above, . 

 becoming 2 to 5 inches long, acute at the apex, rather smaller and often 

 scarcely unfolded at flowering time; flowers solitary at the ends of the 

 branches, peduncled, drooping, narrowly bell-shaped, lemon-yellow, 1 toi| 

 inches long, perianth segments six, distinct, smooth on both sides or very 

 slightly granular within; stamens six, longer than the styles which are 

 united to about the middle; anthers linear, the connective blunt; fruit a 

 three-angled, truncate capsule, about one-half of an inch long. 



In rich upland woods, Quebec to Ontario, Minnesota, Georgia and 

 Kansas. Flowering in April and May. A common flower of most sections, 

 especially in rich woodlands. In the Ontario lowlands and Hudson valley 

 it is largely replaced by the Perfoliate Bellwort (Uvularia per- 

 foliata Linnaeus), which differs chiefly in having smooth and glaucous 

 foliage, and slightly smaller flowers with the perianth segments papillose 

 within . 



Sessile-leaved Twisted-stalk 



Streptopus roseus Michaux 



Figure IV 



Stems 1 to 3 feet high from a short, stout rootstock covered with fibrous 

 roots. Branches usually three or four in number and obliquely ascending, 

 all leafy and sparingly pubescent. Leaves alternate, thin, many-nerved, 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2 to _j.§ inches long, long pointed at the apex, 

 sessile, rounded or slightly clasping the stem at the base, green on both 



