BELLWORT (Uvularia), the name given to a group of hand some woodland plants of the lily family, native to eastern North America. There are five or six species, all low perennials with slender, creeping root stocks which send up leafy stems from 6 to 2oin. high, bearing large pale yellow flowers, usually solitary and drooping at the ends of the branches, and blooming from April to June. The most conspicuous is the large-flowered bell wort (U. grandi flora) . This bears ovate leaves somewhat hairy below when young and narrowly bell-shaped, lemon-yellow, six parted flowers about 1 yin. long. It is found from Quebec west ward to Minnesota and southward to Georgia and Kansas. The somewhat smaller perfoliate bellwort (U. per f oliata), with more pointed leaves, which are smooth below, occurs from Quebec and Ontario south to Florida and Mississippi. In the two foregoing species the leaves appear as if impaled upon the stem (perfoliate). The other much smaller species, by some authorities regarded as belonging to the genus Oakesia, have sessile leaves. The sessile leaved bellwort (U. sessili f olia) ranges from New Brunswick to Minnesota and south to Georgia and Arkansas. The mountain bellwort (U. puberula) is restricted to the mountains of Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina, while the delicate U. fioridana is found only in central Florida.