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LIVER-LEAF. (SHARP LOBED HEPATICA.) Hepatica acutiloba.
Where the cold breeze comes not, blooms alone
The little Wind-flower, whose just opened eye
Is blue, as the spring heaven it gazes at.”
BELLWORT. (WOOD DAFFODIL.) Uvularia perfoliata.
“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.”
WOOD ANEMONE. Anemone nemorosa.
Whose young and half transparent leaves,
Scarce cast a shade; gay circles of anemones,
Danced on their stalks.”
SPRING BEAUTY. Claytonia Virginica.
Where the fire had smoked and smouldered
Saw the earliest flower of Spring time,
Saw the beauty of the Spring time,
Saw the Miskodeed in blossom.
ADDERS-TONGUE. (DOG-TOOTHED VIOLET.) Erythronium Americanum.
“And spotted Adders-tongue with drooping bell,
Greeting the new-born spring.”
WHITE TRILLIUM. (DEATH FLOWER.) Trillium Grandiflorum.
“And spotless lilies bend the head
Low to the passing gale.”
ROCK COLUMBINE. Aquilegia Canadensis.
“The graceful Columbine all blushing red,
Bends to the earth her crown
Of honey-laden bells.”
SQUIRREL CORN. Dicentra Canadensis.
PURPLE TRILLIUM. (DEATH-FLOWER.—BIRTH-ROOT.) Trillium erectum.
“Bring flowers, bring flowers o’er the bier to shed
A crown for the brow of the early dead.
Though they smile in vain for what once was ours,
They are love’s last gift, bring flowers, bring flowers.”
WOOD GERANIUM. (CRANES-BILL.) Geranium maculatum.
CHICKWEED WINTERGREEN. Trientalis Americana.
SWEET WINTERGREEN. Pyrola elliptica.
ONE FLOWERED PYROLA. Moneses uniflora.
FLOWERING RASPBERRY. Rubus Odoratus.
SPEEDWELL. (AMERICAN BROOKLIME.) Veronica Americana.
YELLOW LADY’S SLIPPERS. Cypripedium parviflorum and Cypripedium pubescens.
LARGE BLUE FLAG. Iris Versicolor. Fleur-de-luce.
The fleur-de-luce being one.
SMALL CRANBERRY. Vaccinium Oxycoccus.
There’s not a flower but shews some touch
In freckle, freck or stain,
Of His unrivalled pencil.
WILD ORANGE LILY. Lilium Philadelphicum.
CANADIAN HAREBELL. Campanula Rotundifolia.
“With drooping bells, of purest blue
Thou didst attract my childish view,
Almost resembling
The azure butterflies that flew,
Where ’mid the heath thy blossoms grew,
So lightly trembling.”
SHOWY LADY’S SLIPPER. (MOCCASIN FLOWER.) Cypripedium spectabile.
But ye have lovely leaves, where we
May see how soon things have
Their end, tho’ n’er so brave;
And after they have bloomed awhile,
Like us, they sink
Into the grave.
“Nor did I wonder at the lilies white,
Nor praise the deep vermillion of the rose.”
“The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem,
For that sweet odour which in it doth live.”
PENTSTEMON BEARD-TONGUE. Pentstemon pubescens.
SWEET SCENTED WATER LILY. Nymphæa Odorata.
“Rocked gently there the beautiful Nymphæa
Pillows her bright head.”
YELLOW POND LILY. (SPATTER DOCK.) Nuphar advena.
And there the bright Nymphæa loves to lave,
And spreads her golden orbs along the dimpling wave.
PITCHER PLANT. (SOLDIER’S DRINKING CUP.) Sarracenia purpurea.
PAINTED CUP, SCARLET CUP. Castilleia coccinea.
Are glowing in the green like flakes of fire;
The wanderers of the prairie know them well,
And call that brilliant flower the Painted Cup.
SHOWY ORCHIS. Orchis spectabilis.
“Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
INDIAN TURNIP. (Arum family .) Arum triphyllum
