/@. Drymocallis Fourr. 
Pinnately Compound leaves. 
Stipules present. Flowers in open corymbose cyme 
tube mostly hemispherical, bearing small sepal-like appendages which alter- 
nate with the sepals. Petals 55 rotund, whiti 
Stamens 20-350, arranged in a sing 
the filaments linear. Styles Spindle-shaped 
attached near the base of 
achenes. 
O Petals white or Cream=-color; branches of the inflor- 
escence nearly erect, tending to form a narrow 
4 Mata: plants viscid 
o Petals yellow, sometimes pale but clearly yellow; 
branches of the inflorescence ascending, usually 
4 gracefully, forming an Open cyme; plants more or 
less glandular but not viscid 
A Petals often pale, 4-6 mm. in diameter 2, D. oregana 
2, Petals usually bright yellow, 7-10 mn. in diameter - 
Plants not markedly pubescent, infrequently 
4 more than 40 om. tall, the leaflets tending to 
PAs, ee thic i sh 
g. D. fissa 
A Plants softly hirsute, the leaves not at all 
glandular, stems commonly 60 cm. tall or 
a (ore, infrequently as low as 40 cm., the leaf 
lets thin and soft, oate, rounded at the base 4. De valida 
De convallaria Rydb. _—___34uupesngumetert erb commonly 60-100 cm. tall 
with an often branching rootstock 5-6 mm. in diameter or more, clothed with 
persistent leaf-bases; stem erect, viscid-glandular throughout with spreadin 
hairs; basal leaves 15-25 om. long, pinnately 7-9-foliolate, oblanceolate in 
outline, the petiole exemMOdnTite unevesemy subequal to the blades or longer, 
the terminal leaflet largest, obovate-rhomboidal even suborbicular, coarsely 
toothed and incised, especially above the middle, the lateral leaflets gradually 
smaller, obliquely ovate or subrotund, all thinly clothed with glandular hairs 
on both surfaces, the lower surfaces paler, the cauline leaves etmbbemy sharply 
once-toothed, 5-foliolate, the upper 3-foliolate and sessile, the stipules all 
membranous, green, more or less toothed, joined mostly toward the base; flowers 
- rather numerous, the inflorescence tending to be corymbose with erect branches, 
forming often a rather crowded cluster, the bracts subfoliar, the pedicels vis- 
cid, 2-3 mm. long; calyx-lobes 7-8 mm. long, 8-10 mm. in fruit, the appendages 
5-6 mme long; petals nearly white, obovate-orbicular, 7-8 mm. long, hardly 
notched; stamens 2 mm. long; receptacle narrowly ovate, hispid; achenes glabrais, | 
at first smooth. 
Frequent at lower elevations on dry hillsides. 
I, De convallaria 
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