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CoNVALLARIA STELLATA. STAR=FLOWERED 
SOLOMON’s SEAL. 
FETE BETES EE en ae ae ee 
Clafs and Order. 
Hexanpria MonoeGynia. 
Generic CharaGer.—Vid. N™ 899- 
Specific Charader and Synonyms. 
CONVALLARIA frellata ¢ (Smrtaces. Tournef, Corolle ro- 
tate) foliis alternis, femiamplexicaulibus, 
ovato-lanceolatis, fubplicatim ftriatis, fub- 
3 tus villofis; racemo fimplici, ovato-oblongo, 
erefio. G. 
CONVALLARIA /fellata. Linn. Sp. Pl. 452. Hort. Kew. 
1.456. Mart. Mill. Dif. Willd. Sp. Pl. 
mare 2.163. Michaux Flor. Bor-Amer. 1. 202. 
POLYGONATUM virginianum ere@um fpicatum, flore ftel- 
lato. Morif. Hift. 3. p. 536. f- 15. Ce 4e 
| Bie he 
POLYGONATUM fpicatum fertile. Cort. Canad. 33. t. 34. 
Dee 
Descr. Root flethy; creeping; /?ems many, upright, round, 
ubgeniculately flexuole, leafy, joints far fhorter than leaves, 
nervedly ftreaked, quite fimple, villofe towards the top ; /eaves 
all cauline, recurvedly patent, lanceolate-ovate, _half-ftem- 
€mbracing, underneath nerved-ftreaked villofe, upper ones 
obfoletely plicate tender; lower fuboppofitely alternate ; two 
terminal ones nearly enveloping the inflorefcence which they 
furmount ; raceme {ubthyrfiform, upright, fimple, ovate-oblong, 
parle, compaét, terminal, the two loweft flowers iffuing from the 
axils of the two upper leaves; pedicles about the length of the 
diameter of the corolla, divaricately patent; 4raéfes {mall, 
membranous, clofely adprefled to and much fhorter than thefe ; 
2 corolla 
