NOTES ON AMERICAN WILD-FLOWERS. 



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are white and not very attractive, but the large shining 

 green leaves are quite pretty. May. 



Uvularia scss!7(foIia (Wild Oats).— Plant eight inches 

 high ; flowers whitish yellow, bell-shaped, about an inch 

 long. May and June. 



Some plants of great beauty well adapted for growing 

 in masses form the next group : 



Saiig-niiiaria Canadensis (Bloodroot). — Foliage and 

 flowers both handsome. Height about nine inches. The 

 leaves are heart-shaped, lobed, and of a beautiful sea- 

 green color. Its pure .....^ _ 

 white flowers, about 

 an inch in diameter 



and of a square out- . ■ 



line, appear in April 

 before the leaves. 



Dicenira Caiia- 

 d ens IS (Squirrel- 

 corn). — The finely 

 divided leaves are of 

 a beautiful sea-green 

 color. The pretty 



small white flowers, somewhat resem- 

 bling the bleeding-heart [Dicentra spec- 

 tahilis) in form, appear in April and May. 

 The root bears golden yellow tubers like 

 large grains of corn. Has the handsomest 

 foliage of any of our wild-flowers. 



Erythroniums were described in my 

 January notes. As they grow in woods 

 where the ground is not only matted with 

 tree-roots but full of boulders, florists will 

 find it much more 

 profitable to buy 

 small bulbs and 

 ieep them until of 

 flowering size. 



Tiai'ella cordi- 

 foUa (Bishop's-cap) 

 — A bout eight 

 inches high. The 

 large shining ever- 

 green maple-like leaves and clusters of small white flow- 

 ers are very pretty. In its native haunts it forms immense 

 natural flower-beds of much beauty. Fine for bouquets. 

 M ;y. 



Denlaria Inciniata (Cut-leaved Pepper-root). A pretty 

 plant with divided leaves. It bears clusters of purplish 

 fragrant flowers in April. About six inches high. 



Dcntaria diphylla (Two-leaved Pepper-root).— Has 

 two trifoliate leaves and a terminal cluster of fragrant 

 white flowers ; the handsomest of its species. Both are 

 as fine as some of the candytufts common in cultivation. 



Viola Canadensis (Canada Violet).— This leafy violet 

 grows from ten to eighteen inches high. The flowers are 

 large, white and fragrant, with a faint bluish tinge. 

 April and May. 



\'iola striata (Yellowish-white Violet).— About a foot 

 high, leafy ; flowers larger than the preceding, yellowish 

 \vhite and handsome. May. 



]'iola rostt-ata (Larkspur Violet). — Eight inches high. 

 Its pretty pale blue flowers have long, sharp spurs like 

 larkspuis. May. 



Viola canina J/«/i/f«<!'f;"^//( Muhlenberg's Dog-violet). 

 — Somewhat like the last, but the flowers are pale pur- 

 ple, smaller, and the spurs shorter and blunt. May. 



Viola glabella (Smooth Yellow Violet). — Instead of 

 growing in dry, sandy, hilly woods as the downy species 

 does, this is found in deep-wooded river-valleys. The 

 leaves are smaller than those of that species, and the 

 stems, spreading and prostrate, are about ten inches 

 long. Not so fine as those previously described. May. 



Viola cucullata (Common Blue Violet). — This pretty 

 stemless species with fine blue flowers of many shades is 

 common everywhere. Its finest form is variegated with 

 blue and white. 



vtonia Vii-- 

 ginica ( S p ri n g- 

 beauty). — About 

 6 inches high; cov- 

 ering the ground in 

 its native haunts. 

 Flowers pretty, whitish or purplish, with deeper veins. 

 April. 



Erigenia hulbosa (Pepper and Salt). — A dainty little 

 plant with finely divided leaves and small umbels of 

 pretty white flowers, having conspicuous brownish or 

 purplish stamens. April. 



Ilepatica triloba (Round-lobed Liverwort). — About six 

 inches high, with large three-lobed dark evergreen leaves 

 and many flowers, ranging in color from deep blue to 

 white, rarely purple. It has many varieties, but the 

 next species has a greater number. It is, however, the 

 larger plant. I have never found it in the same woods 



