BY

C. P. TRAILL.

AUTHORESS OF “THE BACKWOODS OF CANADA” “THE CANADIAN CRUSOES” ET.C. ET.C.


CONTENTS.

PAGE
[PLATE I.]
[Liver-Leaf—Wind-Flower.—(Sharp Lobed Hepatica.)]—Hepatica Acutiloba9
[Bellwort—(Wood Daffodil.)]—Uvularia perfoliata11
[Wood Anemone.]—Anemone Nemorosa13
[Spring Beauty.]—Claytonia Virginica16
[PLATE II.]
[Adders-Tongue.—Dog-Toothed Violet.]—Erythronium Americanum19
[White Trillium.—Death-Flower.]—Trillium Grandiflorum21
[Rock Columbine.]—Aquilegia Canadensis24
[PLATE III.]
[Squirrel Corn.]—Dicentra Canadensis27
[Purple Trillium.—Death-Flower.]—Birth-Root.—Trillium erectum29
[Wood Geranium.—Cranes-Bill.]—Geranium maculatum31
[Chickweed Wintergreen.]—Trientalis Americana34
[PLATE IV.]
[Sweet Wintergreen.]—Pyrola elliptica35
[One Flowered Pyrola.]—Moneses uniflora39
[Flowering Raspberry.]—Rubus Odoratus41
[Speedwell.—American Brooklime.]—Veronica Americana43
[PLATE V.]
[Yellow Lady’s Slippers.]—Cypripedium parviflorum and Cypripedium pubescens45
[Large Blue Flag.]—Iris Versicolor.—Fleur-de-luce47
[Small Canberry.]—Vaccinium Oxycoccus50
[PLATE VI.]
[Wild Orange Lily.]—Lilium Philadelphicum53
[Canadian Harebell.]—Campanula Rotundifolia56
[Showy Lady’s Slipper.]—Cypripedium Spectabile.—(Moccasin Flower)59
[PLATE VII.]
[Early Wild Rose.]—Rosa Blanda63
[Pentstemon Beard-Tongue.]—Pentstemon pubescens66
[PLATE VIII.]
[Sweet Scented Water Lily.]—Nymphæa Odorata67
[Yellow Pond Lily.]—Nuphar Advena.—(Spatter Dock)71
[PLATE IX.]
[Pitcher Plant.—(Soldier’s Drinking Cup.)]—Sarracenia Purpurea73
[PLATE X.]
[Painted Cup, Scarlet Cup.]—Castilleia Coccinea77
[Showy Orchis.]—Orchis Spectabilis81
[Indian Turnip.]—Arum triphyllum (Arum family)83
[Cone Flower.]—Rudbeckia fulgida87

PREFACE

TO THE

WILD FLOWERS OF NORTH AMERICA.