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BELLWORT. 
pale green, smooth, and in the largest species perfoliate, clasping 
the stem. 
The root (<*r rhizome) is white, fleshy and tuberous. The Bell- 
wort is common in rich shady woods and grassy thickets, and on 
moist alluvial soil on the banks of streams, where it attains to the 
height of lS'-SO 0 . It is an elegant, but not very showy flower— 
remarkable more for its graceful pendant straw-coloured or pale 
yellow blossoms, than for its brilliancy. It belongs to a sub-order of 
the Lily Tribe. There are two species in Canada—the large Bell- 
wort —Uvularia Grandiflora and U. Perfoliata —possibly we also 
possess the third, enumerated by Dr. Gray, U. Sessilifolia. 
