348 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUiSEUM. 

 Key to the Species. 



a. Leaves reduced to scales, whole plant a feathery mass of filiform 

 branches. [Asparagus officinalis]* 



aa. Leaves oblong, lanceolate or oval, alternate. 



b. Flowers white in a terminal panicle or raceme. 



c. Leaves 1-3. Unifolium, p. 349 



cc. Leaves more than 3. 



d. Flowers in a panicle, numerous. Vagnera racemosa, p. 348 

 dd. Flowers larger and fewer in a raceme. V. stellata, p. 348 



hb. Flowers axillary, single or 2-10 in an umbel, drooping. 



Polygonatum, p. 349 

 aaa. Leaves whorled, lanceolate, obovate or rhombic. 



b. One whorl of three leaves, with a central flower. 



c. Flower erect, white or purple. Trillium erectuni, p. 350 



cc. Flower recurved under the leaves. T. cernuum, p. 350 



bb. Leaves in two whorls of 3-10. Flowers several, recurved under the 



upper whorl, greenish yellow. Medeola, p. 350 



VAGNERA Adanson. 



Vagnera racemosa (L.). Wild Spikenard. 



Convallaria racemosa Linnseus, Sp. PI. 315. 1753 [Virginia and Canada]. 

 Smilacina racemosa Knieskern 31. — Wiillis 64. 

 Unifolium racemosum — Britton 240. 



Common in woods of the Northern and Middle districts, occa- 

 sional in the Cape May and Coast regions, but absent from the 

 Pine Barrens. 



Fl. — Mid-May to early June. 



Middle Distridt. — Freehold (NB), Farmingdale, New Egypt, Bordentown, 

 Pemberton Jnc. (S), Kinkora (NY), Delaire, Fish House, Medford (S), 

 Washington Park, Lawnside (S), Lindenwold (S), Mickleton, Mantua, 

 Sewell (S), Glassboro, Swedesboro, Yorktown, Riddleton, Salem (S). 



Coast Strip. — Atlantic City (S). 



Cape May.— Cold Spring (OHB), 



Vagnera stellata (L.). Star-flowered Spikenard. 



Convallaria shellata Linnseus, Sp. PI. 316. 1753 [Canada]. 



Smilacina stellata Willis 64.— Britton Bull. Torrey Bot. Club XV. 97. 1888. 



Unifolium stellatum Britton 241. 



Vagnera stellata Keller and Brown 103. 



Northern counties and southward along the coast strip to Cape 

 May, but not found elsewhere in the State. 



* Asparagus, escaped from culti\'ation in some places. 



