LILY FAMILY, Liliaceae. 
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Fairy Bells are graceful plants, growing in rich, moist, 
mountain woods, with smoothish, or slightly hairy, branch- 
ing stems, leafy above and with scaly bracts below, springing 
from slender root-stocks; leaves netted-veined, alternate, 
without leaf-stalks, smooth and thin in texture and often 
clasping the stem; rather small, bell-shaped flowers, hang- 
ing from under the leaves, with six stamens and a slender 
style, with one or three stigmas; the fruit a yellow or red 
berry. Duisporum is from the Greek meaning ‘“ double- 
seed,’’ as in some kinds there are two seeds in each cell of 
the ovary. 
A very attractive mountain plant, 
Fairy Bells growing near streams. It is from nine to 
Drops of Gold is A 
Disporum trachy. twenty-four inches tall, with an angled 
carpum stem, pale green above and reddish below. 
(Prosartes) The delicate flowers, about half an inch 
Yellowish-white jong with a three-lobed green stigma and 
Spring, summer : , 
West yellow anthers, grow singly or in clusters of 
two orthree, nodding shyly under the pretty 
leaves, which are dull above and very shiny on the under 
side, with oddly crumpled edges and set obliquely on the 
stem. The berry when unripe is orange color and sug- 
gested the name Drops of Gold, but becomes bright red 
when it matures in June. D. Hookeri is similar, but the 
style is not three-lobed and the leaves are slightly rough 
to the touch and are not so thin or crumpled. They 
spread out so flat that they make a green roof over the 
flowers, completely screening them from the passer-by. 
This grows in shady woods, but not near streams, 
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