176 SMILACE^. , iPoIt/gvnatum. 



4. S. stellata (Desf.); caule alterne plurifoliato, foliis ovali-lanceolatis acutis basi sub- 

 rotundatis, racemo simplici terminali. Ph, Am. L p. 232. — Convallaria, L — Torrey. 1. 

 J5. 354. Bot. Mag, t 1043. 



Hab, From Lake Huron to the Saskatchawan, and from Hudson's Bay (7)r Wright) to the Rocky 

 Mountains. Dr Richardson. Drummond, N. W. Coast and interior, Douglas. Tolmie, Dr Scouler, — 

 The berries are esteemed poisonous ; the root is employed as an emetic. {Richardson.) 



5. S, racemosa (Desf.) ; caule alterne plnrifoliatOj foliis sessilibus oblongo-ovalibus 

 acuminatis, racemo terminali composite. Ph. Am, \. p, 234. — Convallaria. L, — Torrey, 

 1.J9. 354. BoL Mag. L 899. 



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Hab. Throughout Canada to the Saskatchawan and the Rocky Mountains. Dr Richardson. Drum- 

 mond. N. W. America. Dr Scouler- — More or less pubescent. Tiie largest of the N. American species 

 (the leaves a span and more long), with the smallest and most copious flowers, 



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5. S. hifolia (Roem,); caule alterne bi-trifoliato^ foliis ovato-cordatis sessilibus vel petio- 

 latis, racemo simplici terminali, floribus tetrandris tetrasepalis. — Convallaria. L — Mich, 



Bot. Mag. t. 510. Torrey, 1. p. 253. — Maianthemum Canadense. Desf. — Convall- 

 Canad. Ph. Am. I. p. 233. 



Hab. Throughout Canada to Bear Lake ; and from Hudson*s Bay and Newfoundland to the Rocky 

 Mountains. N. W, America, frequent. Douglas. Dr Scolder. Tolmie, — A very common and a variable 

 plant. More or less downy or glabrous. Leaves sessile or petiolate, (in some of the specimens from Fort 

 Simpson and from Sitcha, on the N. W. coast, the petiole is 3-4; inches long,*) broadly cordate or narrow 

 ovato-cordate. There is no reason whatever for considering the American plant different from the European 



one. 



5. POLYGONATUM. Desf. 



1. P . multiflorum. Desf, — Convallaria. L. — E. Bot. t. 2*79, — 0. Americanum ; floribus 

 brevioribus foliis subtus plerumque pubescentibus, — Convallaria multiflora. Ph. Elliott. 

 Torrey. — P. pubescens, P. canaliculatum, P. hirtum, P. latifolium, and P. angustifolium, 

 of Ph. (Convallaria alior.), may perhaps ail be safely referred to this. 



Hab, Canada, Pursh, to the Saskatchawan. Dr Richardson. Lady DaUiousie. — All the specimens of 

 PolygonaUim that I have received, under very different names, from the United States botanists, it appears 

 to me, are referable to the European P. multifiorum : but the leaves are generally downy beneath, and the 

 flowers are certainly shorter and greener, not so slender in proportion to their length, nor so much contracted 

 near the middle (more cylindrical), as in the European specimen. In the dried specimens, the rounded suc- 

 culent stem, from shrinking, becomes more or less angular or channelled, whence seems to have arisen the 

 p. canaliculatum of Muhlenberg. The P. angustifoUum (C. hiflora, Walt, and Torrey) is only a narrow 

 leaved var. — The single specimen found at the Saskatchawan is in fruit, and is quite glabrous on both sides 

 of the foliage. 



■ This is S. hifolia^ var. Kamtschatica of Bongard in Herb, nostr., and appears to be pretty constant to its cha- 

 racter in the very northern regions, both on the Asiatic and American side. I have the same from Kamtschatka, 

 from Pallas' Herbarium. 



