168 COXVALLARIACEAE 



1 ^'jy^rr ^l^"**^®??®, ^^.¥-^ Greene. Stem slender, 1-3-leaved (usually 2- 

 leaved), 5-18 cm. high, glabrous; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2 8 cm. long: 

 berry pale red, speckled, about 4 mm. thick. Moist woods and thickets: Lab! 

 — N.C.— S.D.-— Mack. Boreal— Submont. My-Jl. 



1 Ai ^* <liia*a*V°^ (Wood) Howell. Stem 2-3-leaved, 2-4 dm. high, glabrous; 

 leaf-blades broadly cordate, acuminate, 5-10 cm. long and nearly as broad 

 berry red, globose, about 6 mm. thick. Maianthemum bifolium dilalatum Wood. 



Swampy places: Alaska— CaUf.— Ida.— Canadian Rockies. Submont .—M ont 

 Je-Au. 



3. STREPTOPUS Michx. Twisted-stalk. 



Caulescent perennial herbs, with horizontal rootstocks. Leaves many- 

 nerved, broad, sessile or clasping. Flowers racemose on 1-3-flowered, extra- 

 axillary peduncles. Sepals and petals much alike, greenish or purplish, each 3, 

 distinct, With spreading or recurved tips. Petals keeled. Stamens 6, hypo- 

 g^Tious; falaments flattened, very short; anthers sagittate, opening by lateral 



slits, uvary c^-ceUed; stigmas 3-Iobed or entire; ovule 

 Berry oval or globose; seeds numerous. 



Plant branched; pedicels geniculate; berry white. 

 Flant simple; pedicels not eeniculate: berrv red. 



1. 5. amplexifoliua. 



2. S. curvipes. 



1. S. amplexifohus (L.) DC. Stem 3-10 dm. high, flexuose-branched ; 

 leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, glabrous and glaucous, 5-13 cm. long; perianth 

 campanulate, greenish white, 8-12 mm. long; sepals and petals lanceolate, 

 attenuate; berry globose-ellipsoid, 8-12 mm. long. Damp woods: Greenl. 

 IN.l^.— N.M.—Ore.— Alaska; Eu. Submont.—Subalp. Je-Au. 



1 nh ^-/^."piP^s Vail. Perennial, with a rather slender rootstock; stem simple, 

 l-c5 dm high; leaves sessile, oval to oblong-lanceolate, 3-8 cm. long, acuminate; 

 perianth pale purple or rose-colored; sepals and petals lanceolate, 5-7 mm. long, 

 mmutely glandular-pubescent inside; berry globose, 7-9 mm. thick. Open 

 woods: B.C.— Ore.— Alaska. Submont.— Mont. Je-Jl. 



4. KRUHSEA Regel. 



Caulescent perennial herbs, with rootstocks. Leaves broad, sessile or slightly 

 clasping, several-nerved. Flowers usually sohtary, inserted opposite the leaves. 

 t lowers rotate; petals and sepals with greenish reflexed tips. Stamens 6; filaments 

 ver>' short; anthers 2-lobed. Ovary 3-ceUed, becoming a berry. Style none. 



1 *■ y • s*r?Ptopoides (Ledeb.) Kearney. Stem glabrous, 5-15 cm. high; 

 leaves 4-8, bright green, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 3-5 cm. long; pedicels recurved, 

 1 cm. long or less; sepals and petals deeply wine-colored at the base, with yellow- 

 ish green tips; fruit globose, bright red at maturity. Smilacina streptopoides 

 Ledeb. Slreptopus ajanensis Tiling. S. brevipes Baker. Kruhsea Tilinaii 

 Regel. Woods: B.C.; Siberia. Mont. My. 



5. DiSPORUM Salisb. 



Caulescent branched perennial herbs, with rootstocks. Leaves broad many- 

 nerved, sessile or clasping, often oblique. Flowers terminal, sohtary or in small 

 subumbellate clusters, drooping. Sepals and petals each 3, whitish or greenish 

 - u X fl XX J- . Stamens 6, hjT^ogjmous ; filaments fiUform, or some- 



what flattened; anthers extrorse. Ovary 3-celled; stigmas entire or 3-cleft; 



"' a,vity. Fruit thick, juicy, (in ours) bright red or orange! 



lobed, obtuse, papillose. 1. D. trachycarpum. 



not papillose, but often nubescent. 2. D. oreganum. 



yellow, narrow, distinct. 



ovules 



Stigma 3-cleft; fruit 

 Stigma entire: fruit 



1. D. trachycarpum (S . WatsJ Stem 3-6 elm. high, more or less flexuose, 

 more or less pubescent; leaves sessile, ovate or oval to ovate-lanceolate, 3-9 cm. 

 long, short-acuminate; perianth narrowly campanulate, ochroleucous 10-15 

 mm long; fmit depressed-globose, deeply 3-lobed, 8-10 mm. thick. Prosartes 



xT^,^'^"'*/? ^- ^^^- ^- ^^J^"^ ^"t*-' ^ part. Canons and hiUsides: Man — 

 N.M.— Ariz.— B.C. Plain— Subalp. My-Je. 



