HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Convallaria. 155 



2. C. verticillata. Narrow-leaved Solomon's Seal. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, Avhorled. 



C. verticillata. Linn. Sp. PI. 45 1 . Willd. v. 2. 1 G I . Fl. Br. 37 1 . 

 Engl. Bot. V. 2. t. 1 28. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 2. 357. Hook. Scot. 

 103. Dicks. H. Sice. fasc. 18. 6. FL Dan. t. 86. JVuhlenb. 

 Lapp, "n . 



Polygonatum n. 1244. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 120. 



P. verticillatum. Redout. Liliac. t. 244. 



P. angustifolium, non ramosum. Bauh. Pin. 303. 



P.angustifolium. FucIis.Hist.bSG.f. /c.337./. Dalech.Hist.\Q23.f. 



P. quintuni, sive angustifolium primuin. Clus. Hist. v. 1.277. f. 



P. tenuifolium. Cord. Hist. 113./. 



P. minus. Ger. Em. 903./. 



P. alterum. Dod. Pempt.345.f. 



Sigillum Salomonis angustifolium. Trag. Hist. 400./. 



In woods at the bases of the Scottish mountains, very rare. 



In Den Rechip, a deep woody valley, between the hills of Stor- 

 mont, Perthshire, about 4 miles north-east of Dunkeld. Mr. Ar- 

 thur Bruce. 



Perennial. June. 



Root fleshy, creeping. Stem erect, near 2 feet high, simple, angu- 

 lar, smooth 3 naked at the lower part ; clothed above with nu- 

 merous whorls of sessile, spreading, linear-lanceolate, ribbed 

 leaves, 3 or 4 inclies long, from 3 to 4 in a whorl, the upper- 

 most often as many as 5, 6, or 7 ; their under surface glaucous. 

 Flower-stalks axillary, solitary, branched, drooping, hardly an 

 inch in length, each bearing from 2 to 4 pendulous, white 

 Jiowers, tipped with green. Cor. cylindrical ; its segments pa- 

 rallel, near together, bearded withinside under the tips. Stam. 

 short, in the mouth of the tube. Style short. Berry globose, 

 deep blue. 



3. C. Polygonatum. Angular Solomon's Seal. 



Leaves alternate, clasping the angular stem. Stalks axil- 

 lary, mostly single-flowered. Stamens smooth. 



C. Polygonatum. Linn. Sp. PL 45 1 . Willd. v.2.]6\. FL Br. 37 1 . 

 EngL Bot. V. 4. t. 280. Hook. Loud. t. 38. Woodv. Med. Bot. 

 t.AA. FLDan.t.377. 



Polygonatum. Camer. Epit. 602. f. 



P. n. 1242. HaU. HisLv. 2. \ 19. 



P. floribus ex singularibus pediculis. Bau/i. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 529. f. 

 Rail Syn. 263. 



P. latifolium, flore majore odoro. Bauh. Pin. 303. 



P. latifolium secundum. Clus. Hist. v. 1. 276. Ger. Em. 904./. 



P. latifolium. Dod.Pempt.346.f. 



P. latifolium, flore albo majori odorato. Barrel. Ic. ^ 711./. 1. 



P. vulgare. Redout. Liliac. t. 258. 



/3. P. Hellebori albi folio, caule purpurascentc. Raii Syn. 263. 



