(WOOD DAFFODIL.) 
UvvMria (Jro.adijldra. 
“Fair Daffodils we weep to see 
Thee haste away so soon, 
As yet the early rising sun 
Has not attained his noon. 
Stay, Stay!— 
Until the hasting day 
Has run, 
But to the evening song; 
When having prayed together we 
Will go with you along.” Herrick. 
[IS slender drooping flower of early spring, is known by 
the name of Bellwort, from its pendant lily-like bells; 
and by some it is better known as the Wood-Daffodil \ to 
which its yellow blossoms bear some remote resemblance. 
The flowers of the Bellwort are of a pale greenish-yellow; the 
divisions of the petal-like sepals are six, deeply divided, pointed and 
slightly twisted or waved, drooping from slender thready pedicels 
terminating the branches; the stem of the plant is divided into two 
portions, one of which is barren of flowers. The leaves are of a 
