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4. UVULARIA L. Sp. PL 304. 1753. 
Erect forked perennial herbs, with alternate sessile or perfoliate 
leaves, and large pedimcled drooping usually solitary flowers. Perianth 
narrow or campanulate; its segments distinct, deciduous, each with a 
nectary at the base. Stamens 6, free or adnate to the bases of the peri- 
anth-segments; filaments slender; anthers linear, the sacs longitudinally 
dehiscent. Ovary 3-lobed, 3-celled, sessile or short-stalked, with several 
ovules in each cell; styles 3, united to near the middle, stigmatic along 
the inide. Capsule ovoid or obovoid, 3-angled or 3-winged, loculicidally 
dehiscent. Seeds globose, 1-^-3 in each cell. 
Leaves perfoliate ; capsule obtusely 3-angled. 
Leaves pubescent beneath; perianth-segments smooth. 3. TJ. grandiflora. 
I’lant glabrous and glaucous ; perianth-segments papillose within. 2. TJ. 
perfoliaia. 
Leaves sessile; capsule acutely 3 angled or 3-w'inged. 3. U. sessilifoUa. 
1. UvuLAETA (JEAADIFLOEA J. E. Smith, Ex. Bot. 1 ; 99, PI. 51. 1804-5. 
Large-flowered Bellwort. 
Stem 6 — 20 inches high, scale bearing below, naked or with one or 
two leaves below the fork; roots many, long and slender; leaves perfoli- 
ate, oval, ovate or oblong, apex acute, base rounded or acutish, pubescent 
beneath, sometimes becoming glabrate, glabrous above;, flowers lemon- 
yellow, an inch or more in length; perianth-segments smooth, sometimes 
slightly granular within; stamens longer than the styles; connective 
blunt; capsule truncate, 3-angled, 4 — 5 lines long, dehiscent above, on a 
peduncle an inch in length. Type locality: “Received from North 
America.” 
This Bellwort is frequent in rich v/oods. The flowers appear during 
the latter part of April and early May, many appearing later in May; the 
fruit ripens in June. The species ranges from New Brunswick and 
Ontario to Minnesota, south to Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Iowa. 
In Iowa the species is well distributed throughout the state. Specimens 
at hand are from Winneshiek, Muscatine, Johnson, Appanoose and Deca- 
tur counties. The writer noted the species in Allamakee and Clayton 
counties. Spe'^imens examined in the State University herbarium were 
from the additional counties of Lee, Dallas, Calhoun, Cerro Gordo, Win- 
nebago and Emmet. J. C. Arthur reported the species from Story county; 
L. H. Pammel from Woodbury county; Bruce Fink from Payette county; 
Barnes, Reppert and Miller from Scott county; James Gow from Adair 
county; and Peck from Hardin county. 
rnrry, C. C. Owen’s Loport Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa and Min- 
nesota, p. 020, 3<So2. 
Bessey, G. E. Fourth Biennial Report of the Iowa Agricultural College, p. 
122, 1872. 
Arthur, J. C. Contributions to the Flora of Iowa, p. 32, 1876. 
Nagel. J. J. and Haupt, J. G. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of 
Natural Sciences. Yol. I, p. 164, 1876. 
Haupt, J. G. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, 
Vol. 2, p. 134, 3 877. 
Hitchcock, A. S. The Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, 
Vol. 5, 3 886—1893, p. 520, 1892. 
