22 Spri7ig Flora of OJiio. 



•J. Genvxs VAG'-NE-RA. — Stems simple, from a creeping or thickish 

 root-stock, leaves alternate, mostly sessile; flowers (i-parted, white, in 

 simple or branched racemes. 



Vag'-ne-ra ra-ce-mo'-sa (L.) Mor. (Smilacina racemosa Desf.) False 

 Soloman's Seal ; False Spikenard. — Flowers in a terminal racemose pan- 

 icle ; leaves oblong or oval-lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate. 



Vag'-ne-ra stel-la'-ta (L.) Mor. [Smilacina stellata Desf.) False 

 Soloman's Seal. — Flowers in a simple few-flowered raceme; leaves 7-11, 

 oblong-lanceolate. 



Vag'-ne-ra tri-fo'-li-a (L.) Mor. {Smilacina trifolia Desf.) False 

 Soloman's Seal. — Flowers as in the last; plant dwarf (2-6 in. high); 

 leaves 3 (or 2-4) tapering to a sheathing petiole. 



10. Oenus U-NI-FO'-LI-UIVI. — Like the last genus but the perianth 

 4-parted, stamens 4, stigmas 2-lobed. 



U-ni-fo'-li-um can-a-den'-se (Desf) Greene. {Maiaiiihcinian caua- 

 dense Desf.) Two-leaved Soloman's Seal.— Plant 3-5 in. high, leaves 2 or 

 3, lanceolate to ovate, cordate at base, sessile or shortly petiolate. 



11. Genus DIS'-PO-RUM. — Plants downy, branched above, having 

 closely sessile ovate thin leaves; flowers greenish-yellow, drooping, 

 solitary or in pairs. 



Dis'-por-um lan-u-gin-o'-sum (Mx.) Britt. Downy Disporum. — Sepals 

 linear-lanceolate, taper-pointed, about !i in. long. 



12. Genus STREP'-TO-PUS. — Herbs with forking and divergent 

 branches, ovate and taper-pointed clasping leaves and small flowers, 

 solitary or in pairs on slender pedicels bent or contorted near the 

 middle. 



Strep' to pus am-plex-i-fo'-li-us (L.) DC. Twisted Stalk. — Leaves very 

 smooth, glaucous underneath; flowers greenish-white; stigma entire. 



13. Genus PO-LYG-O-NA'-TUM. Herbs with simple erect or cun-- 

 ing stems, naked below from creeping thick and knotted root-stocks; 

 leaves alternate; flowers axillary, nodding, greenish, perianth cylin- 

 drical, oblong. 



. Po-lyg-o-na'-tum bi-flo'-rum (Walt.) FU. Soloman's Seal.-- Stem 1-3 



-vcC / S> ft. high, peduncles mostly 2-flowered; perianth 4-(i lines long. 



