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725 ; Loma Prieta, DaAy 630 ; Los Gatos, Heller 7348 ; Sau Andreas Lake, San Mateo Co., 

 C. F. Balccr 1915; Berkeley Hills, Jepson; Mt. Tamalpais, Jepson; Inverness, Jepson 557a; 

 Sonoma Geysers, F. P. McLean; Ft. Bragg, W. C. Mulheics 87; Humboldt Hill, Traoy 1057; 

 Trinity Summit, Jepson 2115. 



Bet's. — SiiiLACiN.i SESsiLiFOLiA Nutt. ; Baker, Jour. Linn. See. 14:566 (1875), based on 

 material from British Columbia to California and New Mexico; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 126 

 (1901). Vnlfolhim sessilifolivm Greene, Bull. Torr. Club, 15:287 (1888). Vagnera sessilifoUa 

 Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 316 (1894). UnifoUum UUaceum Greene, Pitt. 1:280 (1889), type loc. 

 Siskiyou Co., Greene (Pitt. 2:31). 



3. S. amplexicaulis Nutt. Fat Solomon. Stem 1 to 3 feet high, this and 

 the under surface of the h^'aA-es with a minute fuzzy pubescence or rarely gla- 

 brous; rootstoek stout, elongated; leaves oblong-ovate to lanceolate, 3 to 51/2 

 inches long, acute at apex, sessile by a broad clasping base ; panicle usually short- 

 peduncled, oblong, 2 to 4 inches long ; pedicels 1 line long or less ; perianth- 

 segments less than 1 line long; filaments lanceolate or broadly subulate, much 

 longer and often broader than the segments; style % to nearly as long as the 

 ovary ; berry light red, finely sprinkled with dark red dots, 2 to 21/0 lines in 

 diameter, usually 1-seeded. 



Shady woods, -Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges. North to British Columbia. 



Locs. — North Fork Bidwell Creek, Modoc Co., Jepson 7901; Long Lake, Plumas Co., Eall 

 9320; Independence Lake, Nevada Co., Piatt; Heatlior Lake, El Dorado Co., Jcpsmi 8164; 

 Armstrong's Sta., Amador Co., Hansen 1076; Calaveras Big Trees, A. L. Grant; Sonora Pass, 

 A. L. Grant 154; Blue Cafion, Placer Co., Harriet Wall~cr 1226; Huntington Lake, Fresno 

 Co., A. L. Grant 1044; S. Fork Kaweah River, Culhei-tson 4252; Greenhorn Range, Kern Co., 

 Hall # Bahcock 5056; Deer Springs, San Jacinto Mts., Hall 2572; Notleys Ldg., Santa Lucia 

 Mts., Marion Parsrms; Saratoga, Santa Cruz Mt.s., Jepson 5630; Palo Alto, Tidestrom; Mt. 

 Tamalpais, Jepson; Comptche, Jepson 2169; Redwood Creek, n. Humboldt Co., Jepson 1950; 

 Russian Creek, Siskiyou Co., Butler 94; Mt, Shasta, Setchell ^ Dobie. 



Var. glabra McBr. Leaves broadly oblong; herbage glabrous and slightly glaucous. — High 

 altitudes, Humboldt Co. and Sierra Nevada. 



Loes. — Trinity Summit, Jepson 2114; Matterhorn Canon, Yosemite Park, Jepson 4502. 



Refs. — Smil,\cin.\ amplexicaulis Nutt. Jour. Acad. Phila. 7:58 (1834), type loc. sources 

 of the Columbia River, Wyeth; Jepson, Fl. "W. Mid. Cal. 127 (1901). s'. racemosa var. 

 amplexicaulis Wats. Bot. King, 345 (1871); Henderson, Bull. Torr. Club, 27:357 (1900). 

 Vnifolium amplexicaule Greene, Bull. Torr. Club 15:287 (1888). Vagnera amplexicaulis 

 Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 316 (1894). V. pallescens Greene, Proc. Acad. Phila. 47:551 (1895), 

 type loc. Fresno Co. (middle elevations of the Sierra Nevada) ; pale glaucous-green but not 

 glabrous; panicle 4 to 6 in. long (ex. char.). Var. glabra McBr. Contrib. Gray Herb. 56:18 

 (1918), type loc. South Fork Kaweah River, Culbertson 4252. S. glabra Tracy in herb. 



27. MAIANTHEMUM Welib. 



Stem low, from a horizontal rootstoek, bearing 2 or 3 broad leaves and a 

 terminal raceme of white tlowers, the pedicels solitary or 2 or 3 in a cluster. 

 Perianth-segments 4. Stamens 4, with filiform filaments. Ovary 2-celled ; stigma 

 2-lobed. Fruit a globose red berry. — Species 2, northern hemisphere. (Greek 

 maias, I\Iay. ami anthemon, flower, in allusion to the flowering period.) 



1. M. bifolium DC. var. kamtschaticum Jepson. Stem simple, erect, 4 to 

 14 inches high, often stout; leaves ovate- or triangular-cordate, 2 to 4i4 inches 

 long, the petiole of the lower one sometimes longer than the blade ; ba.sal leaf 

 cordate, short-pointed, very large, very long-petioled, almo-st as tall as the flow- 

 ering stem; raceme peduneled, 1/0 to 2 inches long; perianth-segments oblong or 

 broadest toward apex, slightly unequal, 1 to 11/2 lines long, becoming deflexed ; 

 berry 3 lines in diameter. 



Woods of the North Coast Ranges near the coast from Marin Co. to Humboldt 

 Co. Far north to Alaska. Asia. 



Locs. — Sausalito, ace. Behr; Inverness, Jepson 8299; Mendocino City, Bolandcr 4777; 

 Ft. Bragg, W. C. Mathews; Eureka, Tracy 2552. 



Refs. — Maiantheiium bifolium DC. var. kamtschaticltji Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 

 109 (1911). Convallaria bifolia var. lamtschatica Gmel. Linnaea 6:587 (1831), type loc. 



