84 CALOCHORTACEAE. 



Flowers axillary, greenish-white ; filaments slender ; anthers acute. 



2. STREPTOPUS. 



Flowers terminal, yellow; filaments dilated; anthers obtuse. 3. DISPORUM. 

 Sepals and petals partially united into a tube; flowers axillary. 4. SALOMOMA. 



i. VAGNERA Adans. FALSE SOLOMON'S SEAL, WILD SPIKENARD. 



Inflorescence paniculate. 



Leaf-blades acuminate ; the lower contracted at the base into distinct petioles. 



i. V. racemosa. 



Leaf-blades acute; all sessile and more or less clasping. 2. V. amplexicaulis. 

 Inflorescence racemose. 



Petals and sepals linear or linear-lanceolate. 3. V. leptopetala. 



Petals and sepals oblong-lanceolate. 



Pedicels short, slightly if at all longer than the flowers or the fruit ; leaves 



lanceolate, acute. 4. V. stellata. 



Pedicels long ; the lower often 2-3 times as long as the flowers or the fruit ; 

 leaves narrowly lanceolate, long-attenuate. 5. V. liliacea. 



1. Vagnera racemosa (L.) Morong. (Smilacina racemosa Desf.) In moist 

 woods from N. S. to Wash., Ga. and Calif. Alt. 6500-8500 ft. Ojo; Ouray; 

 Boulder Canon. 



2. Vagnera amplexicaulis (Nutt.) Morong. (Smilacina amplexicaulis 

 Nutt.) In rich woods from Mont, to B. C, Colo, and Calif. Alt. 6000-9000 

 ft. La Plata River Canon; Big Creek Gulch, Routt Co.; Black Canon; 

 Poverty Ridge, Cimarron ; Redcliffe ; Ouray ; Veta Mountain ; headwaters 

 of Pass Creek; near Pagosa Peak; Gore Pass; banks of Fish Creek; gulch 

 south of Boulder ; Hematite. 



3. Vagnera leptopetala Rydb. In dark, wooded canons of Colo. Alt. 

 9000-10,000 ft. Headwaters of Sangre de Cristo Creek; Dark Canon; 

 Chicken Creek, West La Plata Mountains; near Pagosa Peak; Los Pinos. 



4. Vagnera stellata (L.) Morong. (Smilacina stellata Desf.) In open 

 woodlands from Newf. to Sask., Mont., Va. and Colo. Alt. 4000-12,000 ft. 

 Ojo; Halfway House, Pike's Peak; Colorado Springs; Ft. Collins; banks of 

 Poudre River, north of La Porte ; Horsetooth Gulch ; mountain north of 

 Steamboat Springs; Franklin; Campion's ranch. 



5. Vagnera liliacea (Greene.) Rydb. (Smilacina scssilifolia of Coulter's 

 Man. in part, not Nutt.) In moist woodlands from S. D. to B. C., N. M. and 

 Calif. Alt. 7500-9000 ft. Chaparral-covered hills southeast of Ouray; Van 

 Boxle's Ranch, above Cimarron ; headwaters of Sangre de Cristo Creek ; 

 Pike's Peak. 



2. STREPTOPUS Michx. TWISTED-STALK. 



i. Streptopus amplexifolius (L.) DC. In moist wood from Greenl. to 

 Alaska, N. C., Colo, and Ore. Alt. 6500-10,000 ft. Cameron Pass ; Rabbit- 

 Ear Range; Upper La Plata River; near Pagosa Peak; Sangre de Cristo 

 Creek; Keblar Pass; Columbine; Grant Lake; Jack Brook; mountains above 

 Beaver Creek ; Bosworth's ranch ; Stove Prairie ; Big Creek Gulch ; Steam- 

 boat Springs. 



3. DISPORUM Salisb. 



i. Disporum trachycarpum (S. Wats.) B. & H. (Prosartcs trachycarpa 

 S. Wats.) On mountain sides and in canons from Man. to B. C., Colo, and 



