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2. U. stellatum (L.) Greene. Glabrous or pubescent, 3 dm. or less high: leaves 7 to 
12, oblong-lanceolate, slightly clasping: raceme simple, sessile or nearly so: flowers 
few, larger, on solitary pedicels: stamens included: berries blackish. (Convallaria 
stellata L. Smilacina stellata Desf. )—Northwestern Texas. 
15. UVULARIA L. (BELLWoRT.) 
Stems rather low and forking above, from a short rootstock with 
fleshy roots, with oblong perfoliate nembranaceous leaves, yellowish 
drooping flowers solitary on terminal peduncles, narrowly bell-shaped 
deciduous perianth (the acuminate spatulate-lanceolate distinct seg- 
ments obtusely gibbous at base and with a honey-bearing groove 
within), much shorter stamens with linear anthers, deeply 3-cleft style, 
coriaceous truncate 3-lobed pod, and a few seeds (within a white aril) 
in each cell. 
1, U. perfoliata L. Glaucous throughout, 2 to 4 dm. high, with 1 to 3 leaves 
below the fork: leaves glabrous, oblong to ovate-lanceolate, acute: perianth-seg- 
ments glandular-pubescent within: stamens shorter than the styles: tip of connec- 
tive acuminate: cells of pod with 2 dorsal ridges and 2-beaked at apex.—Northern 
Texas. 
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16. CALOCHORTUS Pursh. 
Stems usually flexuous and branching, with few linear-lanceolate 
radical and ecauline leaves (the latter alternate and clasping) with 
many nerves and transverse veinlets, open campanulate flowers with 
densely hairy glands, and the narrowly oblong pod with thick obtusely 
angled lobes. 
1. C. Gunnisoni Watson. Stem slender, bulbiferous at base, with 1 to 3 narrow 
cauline leaves, and umbellately 1 to 5-flowered: petals 3 to 3.5 em. long, light lilae, 
yellowish green below the middle, banded and lined with purple, the transverse 
gland nearly as broad as the petal: anthers acuminate.—Northwest Texas and 
northward. 
17. BRYTHRONIUM L. (D0G’s-TOOTH VIOLET.) 
Nearly stemless herbs, with two smooth shining flat net-veined 
leaves tapering into a long petiole and sheathing the base of the one- 
flowered scape which arises from a deep solid-scaly bulb, rather large 
nodding lily-like flowers with distinct lanceolate recurved segments, 
subulate filaments, erect oblong-linear anthers, elongated style, oblong- 
obovate pod, and numerous ovoid membranaceous-tipped seeds. 
1. BE. albidum Nutt. (WaHrre Doa’s-TooTH VIOLET.) Leaves elliptical-lanceolate, 
scarcely or not at all spotted: perianth pinkish white; inner divisions toothless: 
styles rather slender except at apex, bearing 3 short spreading stigmas.—From cen- 
tral to northern and western Texas. Common in McLennan County is the var. 
COLORATUM Sterns, with white perianth more or less suffused with rose-purple vary- 
ing to bright yed, and the leaves more strongly green and brown mottled,—Mr. 
Sterns notes that the suffusion of red extends to the ripening pod, and that the plant 
exhales a delicate fragrance, 
