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17. VERATRUM, Tourn.; Linn. 
l. VERATRUM PARVIFLORUM has been considered with the genus Melanthium 
because its synonymy has been entangled with that genus, standing as 
it does in some respects intermediate between these two genera. We 
may now consider the remaining species of Veratrum. 
2. VeRATRUM VIRIDE, Ait. Hort. Kew. iii, (1789) 422; Bigel. Amer. Med. 
Bot. ii. (1818) 121, t. 33. 
V. album, Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. ii. (1803) 249, non Linn. 
Helonias viridis, Ker, in Bot. Mag. (1808) t. 1096. 
In swamps and wet woods, New Brunswick and Quebec to Ontario, south to 
Georgia and Tennessee, west to Minnesota. 
3. Veratrum Wooprr, Robbins, in Wood, Classbook, ed. 2, 557 (1855). 
Dry woods and hills, S. Indiana to Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa. 
Specimens: Hancock Co., Ill, S. B. Mead, 1842. (resembles V. inter- 
medium). Desmoines River opp. Portland, Iowa Terr., Chas. A. Geyer, 1841. 
4. VERATRUM INTERMEDIUM, Chapm. Flora S. Un. St. (1860) 489. 
Middle Georgia to middle Florida. 
Specimens : Gadsden Co., Fla., Chapman, 1837. Foot of Stone Mountain, 
De Kalb Co., Ga., Eggert, 1897 (resembles V. Woodii). 
5, VERATRUM CALIFoRNIcUM, Durand, in Journ. Phila. Acad. iii. (1855) 
103; Piper, Fl. Washington, Contrib, U.S. Nat. Herb. xi. (1906) 196, 
pl. 20. 
V. album, S. Wats. Bot. King’s Exped. 344. 
V. speciosum, Rydb. in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xxvii. (1900) 531. 
Washington State to California, Colorado, and Montana. 
6. VERATRUM FIMBRIATUM, A. Gray, in Proc. Amer. Acad. vii. (1868) 391. 
Calif. (Mendocino Co.) along the coast. 
7. VERATRUM CAUDATUM, Heller, in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xxvi. (1899) 588. 
Western Washington. 
8. Veratrum Jonesu, Heller, in Muhlenbergia, i. (1905) 124. Idaho. 
9. VERATRUM TENUIPETALUM, Heller, l. c. i. (1904) 39. Colorado. 
10. Veratrum Esconscnorrzit (Schult. f.), A. Gray. 
V. Eschscholtzit, A. Gray, in Ann. Lyc. New York, iv. (1837) 119. 
V. Lobelianum, B. Eschscholzianum, Schult. f. Syst. vii. (1830) 1555. 
V. parviflorum, Bongard. in Mém. Acad. St. Pétersb. ser. 6, ii. (1831) 166. 
Alaska and British Columbia. 
Specimen: Rodman Bay, Alaska, 56, Mrs. K. Stephens, Aug. 15, 1907, 
Univ. Cal. Herb. 127687. 
