coNVALLABiA. HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Zoo 



oblong-oval, acuminate, nerved, pubescent ; flowers in a ter- 

 minal racemose-panicle. W illd» Spec. II. p. 163. Bot, 

 Mag. 899. Mich. Fl. I. p. 202. Big. Bosl. p. 80. 

 Walt, Car. T^. 122. 'iiuiLKVA^s. racemosa D e sfo nt. I.e. 

 p. 51. Pursh FL \. \i.'2M. E I Hot t Sk. ]. ^. 3d5. 

 Gron. Virg. 38. Cold, .Voveb. 78. 



Root tuberous. Stem a foot and a half or 2 feet high, a little 

 flexuous and angular, smooth below. Leaves alternate, 6 

 inches long, much acuminate, contracted at the base into a 

 short petiole, pubescent on the nerves beneath ; margin mi- 

 nutely ciliate. Fioiuer.s very small, in a compound terminal 

 raceme or panicle ; branches alternate, pubescent. Corolla 

 greenish-white, 6 cleft ; segments oblong, spreading. Sta- 

 meyis nearly as long as the corolla. Germen subrotund, acu- 

 minate with the shQrt thick style. Berries ghibose, red, sel- 

 dom perfecting more than 2 osseous hemispherical seeds. 



Hab. In low grounds ; common. June. 



* * * Corolla subcamfianulate, deefily 6-fiarted ; style elongated ; 

 berry 2-celled, many-seeded. 



5. C. umhelhdata Mich. ', subcaulescent ; leaves oblong- 

 oyal, ciliate on the margin ; scape pubescent ; umbel ter- 

 minal ; pedicels nodding, with minute bracts at the base. 

 Mich, F/. 1. p. 202. Smilacina wm6e//a<a Desf. I.e. 

 p. 53. t. 8. Pursh Fl. \. \).2Z2. E 1 1 i o 1 1 Sk. \, p, 

 395. S. bortalis Bot. Mag. 1155. 



Hoot creeping, somewhat tuberous. Leaves generally about 3, 



approximate on the very short stem, sometimes obovate, 4 6- 



inches long, and about 2 broad, abruptly acuminate, thin and 

 membranaceous, finely nerved ; margin pilose-ciliate. Scafie 

 6 — 8 inches long, angular, terminating in a corymbose umbel 

 of about 4 flowers ; fitdiceis pubescent, half an inch long, 

 naked, or with minute bracts at the base. Corolla nearly as 

 large as in Uvularia sessilifolia, greenish-yellow, 6-cleft al- 

 most to the base ; segments oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, a little 

 spreading. Stamens the length of the corolla ; ^laments slen- 

 der, smooth, inserted into the base of the segments ; anthers 

 oblong. Germen oblong ; style triangular, thick, nearly as 

 long as the stamens j s^f^-ma 3-lobed. Berries of an ame- 

 thystine blue, 2.celled ; cells 3 — 4-seeded. Seeds angular. 

 Hab. In bogs on mountains. On the Catskiir Mountains. 

 Knevels. Fairfield, New-York. Had ley. Hudson, 

 N. Y. Alsofi. Peerfield, Massachusetts. Cooley and 

 Hitchcock^ 8cc, May — June. 



This plant agrees almost equally well with the characters ct 

 CoNVALLARiA umbellulata of Mi c hau x, and Dracaena ho- 

 realis of A i t o n ; both of Avhich are referred to Smilacin-a 

 hy P ur s h. It resembles the latter, except in having the pe- 

 dicels bracteate ; and differs from C. borealis (as described by 



