This section is from the book "Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers", by Caroline A. Creevey. Also available from Amazon: Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers.
Found more in northerly woods. Underground shoots bear yellow, small tubers, resembling grains of corn. The flowers are white or greenish, tinged with pink, with short spurs, and a prominent crest on the two inner petals. Leaves like the last. A delicate fragrance, as of hyacinths, pervades these dear little flowers.
 
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