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Refa. — DiSPORUM parvifolium Britton, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 15:188 (1888). Prosartes 

 parvifolia Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:179 (1880), typo loc. Siskiyou Mts., Eattan (in fl., June, 1879). 



i. D. smithii Piper. Fairy Lantern. One to 3 feet high, soft-pubescent 

 or abiiost glabrous ; leaves round-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, rounded or subcordate 

 (and often a little oblique) at base, at apex abruptly acute or attenuate, 2 to 

 i% inches long; perianth whitish, broad and cup-shaped at base, % to 1 inch 

 long, the tips of the segments erect ; stamens V3 shorter than the perianth ; berry 

 yellow, oblong-obovate, attenuate above into a short beak. 



Stream banks. Coast Range woods very near the coast: San Mateo Co. to 

 Del Norte Co. North to British Columbia. Apr. 



Locs. — Muir Woods, A. L. Grant; Inverness, Jepson 1716; Noyo Eiver, CJuirlotte Boal'; 

 Westport, Jepson; Del Norte Co., Goddard. 



Befs. — DiSPORUM SMITHII Piper, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 11:201 (1906). Ui~idaria smithii 

 Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:174, t. 189 (1839), type loc. Nootka Sound, Menzies. Prosartes memiesii 

 Don, Trans. Linn. Soe. 1:48 (1839). Disporum memiesii Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 1.5:188 

 (1888); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 127 (1901). 



26. SMILACINA Desf. 



Stem simple and leafy, from a horizontal rootstock, bearing a terminal raceme 

 or panicle of small white flowers with minute bracts. Leaves sessile, many- 

 nerved. Pedicels jointed at the summit. Perianth persistent, the segments dis- 

 tinct and spreading. Stamens inserted at the base of the segments; anthers 

 versatile. Style 3-lobed at the summit, persistent ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit 

 a globose 1 to 3-seeded berry. Seeds sub-globose, with thin testa and horny 

 endosperm. — Species about 20, North America and Asia. (Diminutive of smilax.) 



Flowers in a simple raceme; stamens shorter than the perianth-segments; filaments not dilated. 



Leaves spirally arranged, often folded _ 1. S. steUata. 



Leaves mostly 2-ranked, commonly flat 2. S. sessilifoUa. 



Flowers in a panicle; stamens much longer than the perianth-segments; filaments dilated 



3. S. amplexicaulis. 



1. S. stellata Desf. Star-flower. Stem % to 2 feet high ; rootstock stout ; 

 herbage pale ; leaves oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, often somewhat 

 folded on the midrib, sessile and clasping, 3 to 5V2 inches long; raceme open, 

 6 to 20-flowered ; pedicels 2 to 6 lines long; perianth-segments 2 to 3io lines 

 long ; stamens % as long as the perianth-segments : style nearly equaling the 

 ovary; berry at first with 6 dark-brown longitudinal stripes or bands on a 

 greeni.sh or whitish ground, eventually black. 



Crests and east side of the Sierra Nevada ; desert ranges of Mono and Inyo 

 COS., south to Southern California, and east to the Atlantic. 



Locs. — Fandango Valley, Warner Mts., L. S. Smith 931 ; Jess Valley, Modoc Co., Jepson 

 7941; Long Valley, Lassen Co., Jepson 7783; Kennedv Mdws., upper Stanislaus Biver, Jepson 

 fi.i41; Sonora Peak, J. L. Grant 393; Silver Canon, White Mts., Jepson 7203; Burdick, Ovens 

 Valley, Almcda Nordi/ke; San Gabriel Mts.. Peirson 1682. 



Refa. — Smil.\cina stellata Desf. Ann. Mus. Par. 9:.')2 (1807). Con.vaUaria stellata L. Sp. 

 PI. 1:316 (1753), type from Canada; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1043 (1807). 



2. S. sessilifoUa Nutt. Slim Solomon. Similar to S. stellata and perhaps 

 only a variety of it; rootstock slender; herbage bi'ight green; upper part of stem 

 commonly somewhat arcuately curving and the flat leaves disposed to be 2- 

 ranked ; leaves oblong-ovate to lanceolate ; raceme commonly 3 to 9-flowered ; 

 stamens V^ to % as long as the perianth-segments ; berry red, 1 to 4-seeded, 3 to 

 5 lines broad. 



Common in shady woods and on moist brushy slopes: Coast Ranges, mastly 

 near the coast; Sierra Nevada. North to Washington. 



Locs. — Indepenilence Lake, Plait; Yosemite, Muir; Natural Bridge, Tulare Co., Culbert- 

 son 4362; Big Creek, Santa Lucia Mts., Marion Parsons; San Juan, San Benito Co., Brewer 



