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branches 1-3- (usually 2-) flowered ; leaves 2-4' long, 1^-2' broad, ovate, 
acute or subacuminate, obliquely subcordate at base, more or less clasping or 
often scarcely sessile, not punctate, glabrous or subpubescent, scarcely scabrous 
upon the margin or somewhat ciliate ; perianth nearly white, subacute at 
base ; sepals 3-6" long, narrowly lanceolate, acute, but slightly glandular or 
gibbous at base ; stamens about equaling the sepals, anthers linear-oblong, 
glabrous, li" long, or sometimes but ^" long and upon much shorter filaments; 
style glabrous, deeply 3-cleft or rarely nearly entire ; ovary rounded ; ovules 
4-6 in each cell ; berry 4-6" in diameter, light-red, subglobose-triangular, 
depressed and strongly 3-lobed, 8-12-seeded, rough-papillose. — The ovules 
are funiculated, horizontal or subascending. Collected by Parry in Colorado, 
(1862,) by Lyall in Washington Territory, and also by Wilkes (616, in part.) 
Wahsatch and Uintas ; 6-9,000 feet altitude ; May-August. (1,166.) 
Streptopus amplexifolius, DC. Pennsylvania and northward to New- 
foundland, Labrador, Hudson's Bay and the Saskatchewan; on tlic western 
coast from Sitka to Washington Territory, and in the Rocky Mountains to 
New Mexico. Wahsatch and Uintas ; 8-9,000 feet altitude ; July. (1,167.) 
Smilacina racemosa, Desf, Var. amplexicaulis. (S. amplexicaulis, 
Nutt. Jour. Acad. Phil. 7. 58.) Leaves closely sessile and amplexicaul, 
shortly acuminate or only acute ; style at least half as long as the ovary and 
equaling the stamens. — Distinguished at once from the usual form by its less 
acuminate sessile leaves and longer style and filaments. It is 2012 Ilartweg 
and 353 Bridges from CaHfornia, and 845 Fendler from New Mexico ; col- 
lected also by Wyeth and Lyall in Oregon and Washington Territory and by 
Bourgeau in the Rocky Mountains. 728 Coulter from California, Lyall's s]i('ci- 
mens from Lower Fraser River and Bourgeau's from the Winnipeg are tlie 
typical form, which extends southward to Southern California, New i\[(;\ico, 
and the upper districts of the Gulf States. Clover Mountains, Nevada, and 
the Wahsatch ; 6-7,000 feet altitude ; May-September. (1,168.) 
Smilacina stellata, Desf Northern States, Labrador, Canathi, and 
west to the Saskatchewan and Wasliington Territory ; souili lo Calitbrnia 
stainens; stylo entire; frnit 3-4" in diameter, globose-triaii-jiilur, witli :i very sliort olitiise beak, -j;]alt- 
roiis^ tlio e(>lls 'i-seeded. 
r. Imrhiiiuulni, Torr., collected only in II.av. r, L.is tlir .inllirrs sii.i^lifly i)ii1.e>;eeid. tli.' style 
entire, and ovary siuootli. Friiitiii;;- specimens from Mendocino County, Califoniia. ( K. lloir--. ) ar.' jtrob- 
ably the same: stem liubeseent ; leaves sessile, slioldly crdate, lonu-aruminafr. dark -n-.ii and sliining, 
uiaro-ins sniootli ; frnit sniootli, 4-- ]on.u^ ovate, sliort-alt. nuat<> at . aeli . nd and s.niirwliat b.-aked 
above ; culls ^-t-seeded.— There are oilier nndesi-ribed Californian sj.cei. s. 
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