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leafy, 5. 
HI. Streptopus Michx. ‘Wwisted Stalk. 
Stems erect ,Abranching or simple from horizontal rootstocks. Leaves 
sessile clasping, broad. Flowers axillary, commonly solitary in our 
species, on slender curving peduncles. Perianth segments 6, distinct, equal, 
recurved, deciduous, more or less keeled. Stamens 6, attached at the base 
of the perianth filaments, flattened§ anthers sagittate, extrorse. Ovary 
$-chambered ,style-Secleft a entire. Fruit an ovoid or globose red berry. 
Seeds longitudinally wrinklea, curved. 
O Stems branching, commonly a meter tall; 
flower and fruit pedicels with a joint in 
. \the EO |. Se xif 
o Stems simple, 10-40 cm. tall; pedicels without 
4 a Joints) 2 
>, Leaves 6-8 cme long; stems 50-40 cme long 2, Se Curvipes 
“4 Leaves 5-5 cm. lons; stems 10-20 cm. long 3, Sg brevipes 
1. Se amplexifolius (L.) Dy ‘oO. Twisted Stalk. —————Rovts tock Tori zonrtat > 
sien erect, 1-1.5 me ky Oe ees strigose-glandular near the base, 
#laprous and glaucous above; leaves 6-12 cm. long, oval, ovate or broadly 
lanceolate, shortly acuminate, rounded at the base, cordate 
glabrous on both surfaces, the upper dull, the lower glaucous; flowers pendu- 
lous, commonly colitary—in—the—aziis> on slender jointed pedicels 2-3 cm. 
long, the joint toothed; perianth 10-12 mm. long, greenish white, the segments 
narrowly lanceolate, -equal, distinctly ueeled,—reoustge; stamens 4.5 mm. 
long, anthers somewhat longer than the filaments, acuminate into a short 
appendage; style somewhat shorter than the perianth, entire; berry 8-10 mm. 
long, eveddy at first green and white, triangular in cross-section, becoming ; 
orange, then a bright red; seeds cream-color, 35-3.5 mm. long, tapering. ; 
Along shaded streams throughout our range, from 2500-6000 ft. 
