158 SMILACINEAE brown. (Clintonia.) 



longae, complanatae, obtusac, subapicatae, basi bilobae, facie 

 intcriore versus mcdium affixae ibique secundum longitudincm 

 dehiscentes, ochraceae, vacillantcs, dcciduac. Ovariuni liberum, 

 sessile, oblongum, glabrum, bilocularc, apice in columnam sfyli- 

 nam attcnuatum ; ovula in loculis gcmina, collateralia, angulo 

 interno immediate suspcnsa, oblique ellipsoidea, anatropa; in- 

 tegumeiito extcrno crasso, interno tenui. Cohimna stylina erecta, 

 filiformis, glabra, longitudinc sfaminum. Stigma infegrum?, ob- 

 tusum. In specimine Michauxiano folia nonnisi marginc sub- 

 tusque in costa pubescentia, in culto (interdum fetraphyllo) 

 nonnisi marginc. Bacca (unica suppelens) subglobosa, 4-sperma, 

 caerulea. (Mich.) 



2. C BOREALIS Bajln. in Atl. Journ. 120. Beck. Bot. 358. 

 Torr. Flora of New-York. 300. Asa Gray's Bot. 491. Foliis 

 oblongis, abrupte acuminalis, glabris, margine pubescenfihus ; 

 umbellis paucifloris, ebractcatis ; florihus nutantihus; foliolis 

 pcrigonii campanulato-conniventihus ; ovarii loculis 10-12-ovula- 

 tis. C ciliafa a Bajin. in Journ. de Phys. 89. 102. Smilacina 

 borealis Gawl in Bol. Mag. t. 1403. Pursli. Flor. 1 232. Nutt. 

 Gen. 1.225. Schult. Sysl. 7.307. (excl §) 1/ook. Flor. Bor.-Am. 

 2. 175. Smilacina borealis /5 Gawl. in Bot. Mag. fol. 1155. 

 Convallaria borealis Poir. Encycl. suppl. 5. 737. Dracaena bo- 

 realis Ait. Kew. I. 454. /. 5. ed. alt. 2. 272. (excl. Bot. Mag.) 

 Bot. Bep. I. 206. Willd. Spec. 2. 158. Miihlenb. Cat. p. 35. 

 Bigel. Fl. Bost. 135. Convallaria umbellulata Torr. Flor. 1. 355. 

 (Jtde descr.) — In montihus Alleghanis, Canada, Nova Anglia, 

 Novum Eboracum, Nova Brunsvigia, Nova Scolia ctTerra Nova, nec 

 non in ora occidenfali Americae borealis (fl. Saskafchawan). 7\. 

 — Radix stolonifera. Folia ad hasim caulis 3-4, laefe viridia, 

 subtus glauca, semipedalia, 2-3 poll. (errore typograph. lin.) 

 lata. Scapus i-l-pcdalis, tereti-angulatus, apice 4-5-florus; flo- 

 rihus pedicellatis, umbellam laxam consfituantihus, saepe proli- 

 feram; pedicellis pollicaribus. Perigonium tiirhiuato-patcns ; la- 

 ciniis ohlongo-lanceolafis, basi remofis, ciliatis, extus villosis, 

 revolutis, intus fovea'eIongata, 9 lin. longis. 3 lin. latis, glaucis, 

 late flavo-marginatis (in icone viridi-lufeis). Sfamina hypogyna. 

 Filamenta lineari-lanceolafa, longitudine perigonii, hasi villosa. 

 Antherae suhsagitfato-oblongae, magnae, flavae. Ovarium viride, 

 globoso - f rigonum. Columna stylina staminihus friplo hrevior, 

 subclavato-trigona. Stigma triquefrum, bi-trilohum. (Ex Gavvl.) 

 Bacca amethystina (Pursh; azurea Nutf.). Vidi in specimine 

 olim sub noinine Convallariae umbellnlatae Mich. ex Ilerh. 

 Willd. accepfo, ut sequifur: Caulis inferne squamatus et qua- 

 drifolius, superne per longitudinem 8-9-pollicarem nudus, pe- 

 dunculiformis, gracilis, puherulus, apice subumhellafo-pluri-(sub- 

 5-)florus. Folia valde approximafa, oblonga, suhahrupte acu- 

 minata, inferne vaginantia, sfriato-nervosa, membranacea, glahra, 

 margine subrefrorsum pubescentia, 4.| -5 - pollicaria ; squamae 



