4492 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region and Lower hills. Rich shaded hillsides, borders of 
woods. Lee County, Auburn (Baker §° Earle), Tuscaloosa County (HL. A. Smith). 
Cullman County. April, May. Flowers greenish. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Polygonatum commutatum (Roem. & Schult.) Dietr.; Otto & Dietr. Gartenz. 
3: 223. 1835. LARGE SOLOMON’S SEAL. 
Convallaria commutata Roem, & Schultz. Syst. Veg. 7: 1671. 1830. 
Polygonatum giganteum Dietr.; Otto & Dietr. Gartenz. 1835; 222. 1835. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,525. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 656; ed. 8, 507. 
Canadian zone to Carolinian area. Western Ontario to Saskatchewan; New 
England west to Minnesota, south to the Ohio Valley, Missouri, and Tennessee, and 
along the mountains to Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Shaded hillsides. Dekalb County, near summit of 
Lookout Mountain, 1,800 feet. Flowers greenish. May; rare. 
Economic uses: The rhizomas of both species, as ‘‘Solomon’s seal,” are used medic- 
inally, mostly in domestic practice. 
Type locality: ‘Ad specimen in Herb. cli Martius a De, Sechweinitz in Pennsyl- 
vania lectum.”’ 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
MEDEOLA L. Sp. Pl. 1:339, 1753. 
One species, perennial; Atlantic North America, 
Medeola virginiana L. Sp. Pl. 1:339, 1753. INDIAN CUCUMBER, 
KM. Sk.1:425. Gray, Man. ed. 6,580. Chap. Fl. 479. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area, New Brunswick, Ontario, New England, to 
middle Florida and eastern Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to the Lower Pine belt Shady woods. Franklin 
and Cullman counties. Tuscaloosa County (#. 4. Smith), Hale and Gallion counties. 
Escambia County, Flomaton. May; not infrequent. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Virginia,” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
TRILLIUM L. Sp. Pl. 1: 3389. 1753. 
Fourteen or 15 species, perennials, temperate North America, One to Japan and 
Himalayas. 
Trillium sessile L.Sp. Pl.1:340. 1753. WAKE-ROBIN. 
El. Sk.1:426. Gray, Man. ed. 6,530. Chap. F1. 477. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Pennsylvania, west to Minnesota; Ohio \ alley 
to Missouri; south from New Jersey to Georgia, along the mountains. 
ALABAMA: Lower hills. Shady woods. ‘Tuscaloosa County (#. 4. Smith). Flowers 
maroon purple. Mareh; not frequent. 
Type locality: “ Hab, in Virginia, Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Trillium underwoodii Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 24: 174. 1897, 
UNDERWOOD’S WAKE-ROBIN, 
Carolinian and Louisi:nian areas. Tennessee, South Carolina, middle Florida. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region, Lower Pine region. Rich woods. Mobile County, 
Chastangs Blutt. Lee County, Auburn (Underwood § Earle). Flowers greenish. 
March; infrequent. 
Type locality: ‘In woods and fields, North Carolina to Tennessee, south to Flor- 
ida and Alabama.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Trillium viride Beck, Am. Journ. Sci. 11:178, 1826, 
Trillium viridescens Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soe. ser. 2, 5:155, 1837. 
T. sessile var, nulttallii Wats. Proc. Am. Acad, 14:278. 1879. 
Stem rough-pubescent, at least at the top; leaves oblong-ovate or broadly ovate, 
acutish or somewhat obtuse, blotched, short-attenuate at the base; sepals lanceolate 
or linear-lanceolate; petals clawed, linear, acute, longer than the sepals, greenish 
purple; stamens one-third the length of the petals; filaments shorter than the anthers. 
Carolinian area, Tennessee, Missouri, and Arkansas. 
