84 CALOCllORTACEAK. 



Flowers axillary, grccnish-whitc ; filaments slender ; anthers acute. 



-•. STHF.I'TOri-S. 



Flowers terminal, yellow; filaments dilated; anthers obtuse. .i. Dispokim. 

 Sepals and petals partially united into a tube; flowers axillary. 4. SALOMo.vrA. 



I. VAGNERA Adans. ]".\LSE Solomon's Seal, Wild Spiken.\rd. 



Inflorescence paniculate. 



Leaf-blades acuminate ; the lower contracted at the base into distinct petioles. 



I. V. racemosa. 

 Leaf-blades acute ; all .'^essile and more or less clasping. 2. I', amplexicaulis. 

 Inflorescence racemose. 



Petals and sepals linear or linear-lanceolate. 3. ]'. Icptopctala. 



Petals and sepals oblong-lanceolate. 



Pedicels short, slightly if at all longer than the flowers or the fruit ; leaves 



lanceolate, acute. 4. V. stellata. 



Pedicels long ; the lower often 2-3 times as long as the flowers or the fruit ; 

 leaves narrowly lanceolate, long-attenuate. 5. V. liliacea. 



1. Vagnera racemosa (L.) Morong. (Smilaciua racemosa Desf.) In moist 

 woods from N. S. to Wash., Ga. and Calif. — Alt. 6500-8500 ft. — Ojo; Ouray; 

 Boulder Canon. 



2. Vagnera amplexicaulis (Nutt.) IMorong. {Smilaciua amplexicaulis 

 Nutt.) In rich woods from Mont, to B. C, Colo, and Calif. — Alt. 6000-9000 

 ft. — La Plata River Cafion ; Big Creek Gulch, Routt Co. ; Black Canon ; 

 Poverty Ridge, Cimarron ; Redcliffe ; Ouray ; Veta Mountain ; headwaters 

 of Pass Creek ; near Pagosa Peak ; Gore Pass ; hanks of Fish Creek ; gulch 

 south of Boulder ; Hematite. 



3. Vagnera leptopetala Rydb. In dark, wooded caiions of Colo. — Alt. 

 9000-10,000 ft. — Headwaters of Sangre de Cristo Creek; Dark Cafion; 

 Chicken Creek, West La Plata Mountains ; near Pagosa Peak ; Los Pinos. 



4. Vagnera stellata (L.) Morong. (Smilaciua stellata Desf.) In open 

 woodlands from Newf. to Sask., Mont., Va. and Colo. — Alt. 4000-12,000 ft. — 

 Ojo; Halfway House, Pike's Peak; Colorado Springs; Ft. Collins; banks of 

 Poudre River, north of La Porte ; Horsetooth Gulch ; mountain north of 

 Steamboat Springs; Franklin; Campton's ranch. 



5. Vagnera liliacea (Greene.) Rydb. (Smilaciua scssilifolia of Coulter's 

 Man. in part, not Nutt.) In moist woodlands from S. D. to B. C, N. M. and 

 Calif. — Alt. 7500-9000 ft. — Chaparral-covered hills southeast of Ouray ; Van 

 Boxle's Ranch, above Cimarron ; headwaters of Sangre de Cristo Creek ; 

 Pike's Peak. 



2. STREPTOPUS Mich.x. Twisted-stalk. 



I. Streptopus amplexifolius fL.) DC. In moist wood from Greenl. to 

 Alaska, N. C, Colo, and Ore. — Alt. 6500-10,000 ft. — Cameron Pass; Rabbit- 

 Ear Range; Upper La Plata River; near Pagosa Peak; Sangre de Cristo 

 Creek; Keblar Pass; Columbine; Grant Lake; Jack Brook; mountains above 

 Beaver Creek; Bosworth's ranch; Stove Prairie; Big Creek Gulch; Steam- 

 boat Springs. 



3. DISPORUM Salisb. 



1. Disporum trachycarpum (S. Wats.) B. & H. (Prosartcs trachycarpa 

 S. Wats.) On mountain sides and in caiions from Man. to B. C, Colo, and 



