April, 1913.] Liliales of Ohio. 119 



1. Medeola virginiana L. Indian Cucumber-root. 1-2 >^ 

 feet high; the lower whorl of leaves sessile, acuminate, narrowed 

 at the base, 3 to 5 nerved; umbel 2-9 flowered; perianth segments 

 obtuse; berry dark purple. General. 



19. Streptopus Mx. Twisted Stalk. 



Branching herbs with thin, sessile, or clasping, alternate 

 leaves. Flowers solitary or in two's, greenish, rose or purplish, 

 small and nodding ; peduncles bent or twisted at about the middle ; 

 perianth campanulate of 6 spreading or recurved segments, 

 deciduous, stamen-filaments short; style slender. 



1. Streptopus amplexifolius (L.) DC. Clasping-leaf 



twisted stalk. Plant 16-36 in. high, usually branching below 

 the middle; leaves cordate clasping at the base, glabrous; berry 

 oval. Reported for Ohio. 



20. Disporum Salisb. 



Herbs with slender root stocks and branching stems. Leaves 

 alternate, sessile or clasping; flowers terminal, nodding, solitary 

 or in simple umbels, white or greenish-yellow; perianth of narrow, 

 deciduous, segments; anthers extrorse; style slender; berry oval 

 or ovoid. 



1. Disporum lanuginosum (Mx.) Nich. Hairy Disporum. 

 Pubescent herbs with ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate leaves, 

 2-4 in. long, long acuminate at the apex and rounded at the base. 

 Flowers solitary, or in two's or three's, greenish, ^-^ in. long, 

 campanulate, glabrous, style slender; berry oval, red. In woods. 

 Huron, Lorain, Cuyahoga, Ashtabula, Medina, Columbiana, 

 Morrow, Perry, Richland, Wayne, Adams. 



21. Salomonia Heist. Solomon's Seal. 



Herbs with scarred root-stocks and simple aerial stems, scaly 



below and leafy above, the leaves sessile and alternate in ours. 



Flowers usually greenish, axillary, drooping, peduncled, solitary 



or umbellate; pedicels jointed at the base; perianth 6-lobed; 



stamens included, united with the perianth; styles slender; fniit 



a dark blue berry with a bloom. 



1. Plants glabrous throughout; filaments smooth, flowers usually clustered. 



5. commutata. 

 1. Leaves pubescent beneath; filaments roughened, flowers usually in 

 two's. S. biflora. 



1. Salomonia commutata (R. & S.) Brit. vSmooth Solomon 's- 

 seal. A glabrous herb, 1-8 ft. high. Leaves rounded and some- 

 times clasping at the base; peduncle 1-S flowered, glabrous; 

 flowers ^-%'in. long. In moist woods and along streams. Gen- 

 eral. 



