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NOTES ON THE BLUEBELL. 



T. W. WOODIIEAD, F.L.S.. 



Trchnlcal Cu/lciie. H udders field. 



In studying" the vegetation of the woods in the Huddersfield 

 district, and especially the distribution of the dominant types, 

 the Bluebell (Scilld festalis Salisb.) formed a subject for special 

 consideration. Probably no plant of the undergrowth appeals 

 so strongly to one and all as this spring flower. It is especially 

 characteristic of the oak and sycamore woods of the Coal 

 Measures, presenting extensive sheets of blue, a sight quite 

 unequalled by any other plant of our local flora. 



Fig. I, a, b, and d, seedlings of different agfes ; c, root of one seedling grown into slit of 

 another ; s, slit ; e, a plant in the second year with two leaves, outer scale leaf of bulb 

 decaying ; f, diagram of transverse section of first year leaf ; g, ditto of second year; h, 

 diagram of embryo ; i, diagram of section of embryo passing throuerh slit ; j, a few of 

 the absorbing epidermal cells of cotyledon. 



1904 February i. 



