528 Prof. Don’s Monograph of Streptopus, &c. 
apice recurvato-patentia. Filamenta brevissima, compressa, dilatata, hinc 
plana, inde angulo elevato carinata. Anthere sagittatæ, acuminate, fila- 
mentis ter longiores, apice integrae. Stylus trigonus, ovario dupló longior. 
Stigma levitér trilobum. Bacca globosa, miniata, pisi magnitudine. 
This species is pretty generally diffused throughout the mountainous parts 
of central and southern Europe, occurring in shady woods, and flowering in 
the months of June and July. It was originally discovered in the year 1576 
by the accurate and indefatigable Clusius, as he himself states, in shady 
woods on Mount Wechsel, and at Durrenstein in Austria; and a faithful 
woodcut and description of the plant were given by him in his Rariorum 
Stirpium Historia, which appeared in 1583. This woodcut is repeated in his 
Historia Plantarum, published in 1601; and copies from the same occur in 
the works of Tabernæmontanus, Gerarde, Morison, and Barrelier. There are 
two other original woodcuts of the plant, namely, those given in the Epitome 
of Camerarius, which appeared in 1586, and in the Valgrisian edition of 
Matthiolus, published at Venice in 1583. This last represents the plant 
wholly in fruit, and with straight peduncles. In the cuts of Clusius and 
Camerarius, which last is repeated in Bauhin’s Historia Plantarum, the 
singular twisting of the peduncles is rudely represented. I am not satisfied 
that the apparent originality of the cut given by Camerarius is not due to the 
artist, who may have copied from Clusius, and introduced some alterations of 
his own, for the figure is very faulty. 
Willdenow and some other writers quote as a synonym under this plant 
Polygonatum ramosum perfoliatum luteum alpinum, Barr. Ic. t. 719, which 
evidently belongs to Uvularia grandiflora, being clearly made up from Cor- 
nuti’s figure of Polygonatum ramosum flore luteo minus, with the strange 
addition of the berries of the present plant. 
This species is found likewise in North America, having been first observed 
by Michaux in shady woods in Canada, and since by Pursh on the mountains 
of Pennsylvania; and Dr. Beck records it as indigenous to the State of New 
York. It was cultivated by Philip Miller in Chelsea Garden in 1752, but the 
plant is even now rarely to be seen in collections, The singular contortion 
of the delicate peduncles appears to be for the purpose of keeping the flowers 
from being injured, and their fecundation impeded by coming in contact with 
