Melanthium 



LlLIACEAE 



307 



50 



Map 633 



Uvular fa grandiflora J.E.Smith 



^35 

 Map 634 



Uvularia sess'lifolia L. 



both of them were sedge marshes. Blatchley found it in a marsh near 

 Lake James, Steuben County. Van Gorder found it in Noble County, in 

 sec. 10 of Noble Township. 



Que. to Man., southw. to N. B., n. Vt., n. N. Y., n. Ohio, and n. 111. 



959. MELANTHIUM L. 



1. Melanthium virginicum L. Bunchflower. Map 631. Rare and very 

 local. My White County specimen was found in a wet prairie habitat a half 

 mile east of Idaville. My Cass County specimen was found in mucky soil 

 in a large swamp about 3 miles northwest of Hoover. I found a single 

 specimen on a springy, gravelly slope in the open at "Crows' Nest" about 8 

 miles north of Indianapolis. It has also been reported from Franklin and 

 St. Joseph Counties, from the vicinity of New Albany, and from the area 

 of Delaware, Jay, Randolph, and Wayne Counties by Phinney, who 

 assigns it to "wet meadows." 



R. I., s. N. Y. to Minn., southw. to n. Fla. and Tex. 



960. VERATRUM [Tourn.] L. 



1. Veratrum Woodii Robbins. Map 632. Local throughout the area 

 indicated on the map. Where it is found, however, it is usually frequent 

 over a small area. It is usually found in rich soil on the south sides of 

 deep ravines, although I found a single specimen in a crevice of a limestone 

 cliff along the Muscatatuck River about a mile above Vernon, Jennings 

 County. This species interested me years before I knew what it was. I had 

 seen the large root leaves and watched to see the plant flower but could 

 never find one. I transplanted one to our garden and it was several years 

 before it bloomed. I have not kept a record but I estimate that it flowers 

 about every 4 or 5 years. This plant, during the 15 or more years that it 

 has been under observation, has increased to only two plants. The flowers 

 are deep maroon, or some of them almost black. One specimen in particu- 

 lar was observed. The inflorescence was 23 inches long and three and a 



