C 899 ] 



CONVALLARIA R.ACEMOSA. ClUSTER- 



Flowered Solomon's Seal. 



Clafs and Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. vel fexfido-tubulofa, vel globofa, aut fexpartito-patens. 

 Stigma trigonum. Bacca fupera, 3-locularis, ante maturitatem 

 maculata. 



Obs. Species una foliis 6-verliciIlafis, altera radicalibus vaginantibus 

 fpathaceis, cat era? fejjilibus alternis. J u S s 1 E u . 



Specific Character and Synonyms* 



CONVALLARIA racemofa ; herba tota pubejcens ; foliis 

 ovali-lanceolatis, longe acuminatis, feffi- 

 libus, alternis caulinis; racemo compofito, 

 terminali; corollisrotatis, parvis, crebris ; 

 laciniis peranguftis. G. 



CONVALLARIA racemofa. Sp. PL 452. Hort. Cliff. 125. 

 Gron. Virg. 38, 52. Hort. Kew. 1. 455. 

 Mart. Mill. Did. Willd. Sp. PL 2. 162. 

 Michaux Fl. Bor-Amer. 1. 202. 



POLYGONATUM racemofum. Corn. Canad. 36. /. 37. 

 MoriJ. Hifi.f. 13. /. 4./. 9. Park. Theat. 

 697./. 8. 



A native of Virginia and Canada ; Michaux fays he alfo 

 found it on the mountains in Carolina ; there is a diminutive 

 ftrongly pubefcent variety in the Bankiian Herbarium from 

 'he neighbourhood of New- York ; from which fource we alfo 

 learn that it is called in the language of the Cherokee Indians, 

 Okie Nozvote (Child's Pbyficj. 



Cultivated 



