241] FLORA OF BOULDER, COLORADO 93 



Family 22. CONVALLARIACEAE Link. Lily-of-the-valley 



family. 



95. VAGNEEA Adans. False Solomon's seal. 



265. V. racemosa (L.) Morong [Sinilacina racemosa (L.) 

 Desf.]. Wild spikenard. 



Boulder Cafion, 6500-8500 ft. (Rydberg). 



Nova Scotia to Washington; Georgia to California. 



266. V. amplexicaulis (Nntt.) Greene [Smilacina amplex- 

 icaulis Nutt.] Clasping-leaved false Solomon's seal. 



Common in shady canons throughout; at the edge of the 

 wasting snows in a high alpine valley above Bloomerville 

 July 7, 1906, 5700-10000 ft. (Daniels, 143). 



Montana to British Columbia; Colorado to C.-^lifornia. 



267. V. stellata (L.) Morong [Smilacina stellata (L.) 

 Desf.] Starry false Solomon's seal. 



Common throughout; along ditches and streams in the 

 plains, and in canons and wooded valleys in the mesas and 

 mountains, 5 100-12000 ft. (Daniels, iii). St. Vrain creek 

 (Coulter in Wabash College Herb.). 



Newfoundland to Saskatchewan and Montana; Virginia 

 to Colorado. 



96. STREPTOPUS Michx. Twisted stalk. 



268. S. amplexifolius (L.) DC. Clasping-leaved twisted 

 stalk. 



Local in deep canons in the foothills and mountains, 

 6500-10000 ft. (Daniels, 456). 



Greenland to Alaska; North Carolina to Colorado 

 and Oregon. 



97. DISPORUM Salisb. 



269. D. majus (Hook.) Britton [D. trachycarpum (S. Wats.) 

 B. & H.; Prosartes trachycarpa S. Wats.]. Rough- 

 fruited disporum. 



Local in company with the preceeding, 6500 (Green Mt.; 

 Bear Canon) -iiooo ft. (Daniels, 455). Also at Eldora 

 (Rydberg). 



Manitoba to British Columbia; Nebraska to Arizona. 



