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4. VAGNERA Adans. Herbs with simple stems arising from short root- 
stocks. Leaves several. Flowers in a terminal raceme or panicle. Sepals and 
petals of a linear, lanceolate, or elliptic type. Filaments dilated or inflated. 
Stigma obscurely 3-lobed or nearly entire. Ovules 2 in each ovary- -eavity. 
id spreading.—About 25 species, natives of North Ameriea and Asia.— 
—WI ILD- -"SPIKENARDS. SOLOMON'S-FEATHERS. SOLOMON'S-PLUMES. 
Sepals and n broadly linear: filaments inflated, about as long 
as the peria 1. V.racemosa. 
i and petale narrowly linear: filaments flat, twice as long 
s the porig anth. 2. V. australis. 
1. V. racemosa (L.) Morong. Ste m 3-9 dm. tall: leaf-blades elliptic-lanceo- 
late or elliptic, 5-20 em. long, sessile nee 3—10 em. long, many-flowered: 
sepals and petals n 1.5-2 mm. lon 
berry globular, 4-6 long, E or 
spotted with purple. ‘Smilacina racemosa 
Desf. ious pro 
—The berries are edible. 
V. australis Rydb. Similar to 
a v- 
es, Ga. and Ala. S Perianth white a as in the preceding species. 
UNIFOLIUM Adans. Herbs with simple stems arising from slender 
rootstocks. Leaves few. Flowers in a terminal raceme. Filaments filiform 
subulate. Stigmas 2. Ovules 2 in each ovary-cavity. Berry spreading.— 
Two species, ae following and one in west- 
n North America and the Old World. 
1. U. canadense (Desv.) Greene. Stem 
5—15 em. tall: leaves 2 or 3; blades ovate 
to lanceolate, 2-8 cem. long, truncate or 
t 
HEART-LEAF SOLOMON’S-PLUME.)—Moist 
woods, thickets, and springy places, Blue 
cs N. C., and various provinces, Va. 
o S. D., Man., and Lab.—Spr. 
6. STREPTOPUS Michx. Herbs with forking stems arising from short 
or elongate rootstocks. Perianth rose, purple, or purplish: sepals and petals 
. with recurved tips, not transversely veiny. Anthers sagittate, 2-horned at the 
