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1. ASPARAGUS L. Asparagus. 
Tall perennial with much branched stems from thick matted rootstocks; branchlets 
capillary, often referred to as leaves, the true leaves reduced to small scales; flowers 
small, greenish yellow, axillary, on jointed pedicels. 
1. Asparagus officinalis L. Sp. Pl. 313. 1753. 
TYPE Locauity: “ Habitat in Europae arenosis.”’ 
New Mexico: Farmington; Santa Fe; Mesilla Valley. 
The cultivated asparagus thrives in New Mexico and is a not uncommon escape in 
the valleys. 
2. SALOMONIA Heist. SoLomMon’s SEAL. 
Perennial herbs with simple erect stems from creeping rootstocks; leaves sessile 
or clasping; flowers axillary, nodding, greenish, on jointed pedicels; ovary 3-celled, 
with 2 to 6 ovules in each cell; berry black or blue. 
1. Salomonia cobrensis Woot. & Stand]. Contr. U. 8S. Nat. Herb. 16: 113. 1913. 
TyPE Locality: Copper Mines, New Mexico. 
Rance: Mountains of southwestern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Copper Mines; near Kingston. 
8. VAGNERA Adans. FaLse SOLOMON’S SEAL. 
Low plants with running rootstocks, leafy stems, alternate, sessile, lanceolate or 
elliptic leaves, small, inconspicuous, paniculate or racemose flowers, and reddish 
fruit. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Flowers paniculate; leaves elliptic to oval. ...........-.-.---- 1. V. amplexicaulis. 
Flowers in a simple raceme; leaves lanceolate. ...............- 2. V. stellata. 
1. Vagnera amplexicaulis (Nutt.) Greene, Bot. San Fran. Bay 316. 1894. 
Smilacina amplexicaulis Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7: 58. 1834. 
Smilacina racemosa amplexicaulis $8. Wats. in King, Geol. Expl. 40th Par. 5: 345. 1871. 
TypE Loca.ity: “In the valleys of the Rocky Mountains about the sources of the 
Columbia River.”’ 
Rane@e: British Columbia and Montana to California and New Mexico: 
New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Sandia Mountains; Tunitcha 
Mountains; Chama; Mogollon Mountains; Black Range; Organ Mountains; White and 
Sacramento mountains. Damp woods, in the Transition and Canadian zones. 
We have specimens from the Mogollon Mountains in which the leaves are abund- 
antly variegated with white. 
2. Vagnera stellata (L.) Morong, Mem. Torrey Club 5: 114. 1894. 
Convallaria stellata L. Sp. Pl. 316. 1753. 
Smilacina stellata Desf. Ann. Mus. Paris 9: 52. 1807. 
TYPE Locatity: Canada. 
Rance: British America to Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and California. 
New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Magdalena Mountains; Chama; 
Mogollon Mountains; Black Range; White Mountains; Sierra Grande. Damp woods, 
in the Transition and Canadian zones. 
Some of our specimens may represent Vagnera liliacea Greene, but we are unable to 
separate the two species by any constant character. 
4. STREPTOPUS Michx. TwistTEp-stTAaLk. 
Perennial from a creeping rootstock, with branched stems and small axillary flowers; 
perianth segments acute; fruit a red globose many-seeded berry. 
