CONVALLARIACE.^— LILY-OF-THE- 

 VALLEY FAMILY 



YELLOW CLINTONIA 



Clintdnia horedlis 



Named in honor of Governor DeWitt Clinton of New 

 York. 



Perennial. In moist woods and thickets, especially in 

 evergreen woods. Newfoundland, Ontario, and Minne- 

 sota, south to North Carolina and Wisconsin. Rare in 

 northern Ohio. May, June. 



Rootstock. — Slender. 



Scape. — Six to sixteen inches high, rising from a group 

 of broad, petioled, sheathing, basal leaves, and bearing 

 two to six flowers. 



Leaves. — Two to five, clustered, broad, oblong or 

 obovate, parallel-veined, thin, dark, glossy, acute or 

 acuminate at apex, sheathing at the base. 



Flowers. — Small lilies, pale yellow, greenish on the out- 

 side, less than an inch long, three to six, nodding on slender 

 pedicels from the summit of a leafless scape. 



Perianth. — Six sepal-petals, alike and not distinguish- 

 able. 



Stamens. — Six, slightly attached to the petals. 

 Pistil. — Ovary two-celled; style slender. 

 Fruit. — Oval blue berries, on upright stems. 



Take for example the Clintonia, solitary amidst fallen spruce 

 logs on the mountain slope. Imagine it transferred to a trim 



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