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3. C. Andrewsiana, Torr. Scape a foot or two high, usually 

 with a foliaceous bract and one or more few-flowered lateral fascicles : 

 inflorescence more or less pubescent ; terminal umbel many-flowered ; 

 pedicels slender : flowers suberect, deep rose-color ; segments oblanceo- 

 late, gibbous at base, 4 to 7 lines long, exceeding the stamens and 

 style : filaments pubescent: fruit 4 or 5 lines long ; cells 8-10-seeded. 

 — Pacif. R. Rep. 4. 150; Baker, 1. c. California (Coast Ranges, 

 Humboldt County to Santa Cruz). 



-»- -»- Flower solitary. 



4. C. tjniflora, Kunth. More or less villous-pubescent through- 

 out : scape mostly shorter than the leaves, usually with a very small 

 bract: flower (rarely 2) white, pubescent, suberect; segments broadly 

 oblanceolate, 9 to 12 lines long, exceeding the stamens: filaments 

 pubescent: fruit 4 to G lines long; cells 6-1 0-seeded. — Baker, 1. c. 

 Smilaciiia uniflora, Menz. ; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. 1 75, t. 190. Cali- 

 fornia (Calaveras and Humboldt Counties) to British Columbia. 



3G. SCOLIOPUS, Torr. 



1. S. Bigelovii, Torr. Leaves oval-elliptic to narrowly oblan- 

 ceolate, 4 to 15 inches long, sessile or narrowed at base : pedicels (3 

 to 12) 3 to 8 inches long: outer perianth-segments several-nerved, 

 the inner 3-nerved, 7 to 9 lines long: ovary linear-oblong; stigmas 2 

 lines long: capsule light-colored, 9 to 14 lines long, beaked by the 

 stout style (2 or 3 lines long) : seeds 1 to H Hues long. — Pacif. R. 

 Rep. 4. 14.5, t. 22. California (Coast Ranges, Marin to Humboldt 

 County). 



2. S. Hallii. Leaves smaller (3 to 5 inches long), somewhat 

 petioled : pedicels very slender, 2 inches long or less : ovary broader ; 

 style more slender and stigmas only a line long : capsule brown-purple, 

 5 lines long : rootstock and roots more slender. — S. Bigelovii, Gray, 

 Proc. Amer. Acad. 8. 404. Oregon (Cascade Mountains, Hall). 

 Flower unknown. 



37. MEDEOLA, Gronov. 

 1. M. Virginiana, Linn. Stem a foot or two high, floccose- 

 woolly becoming glabrate : leaves oblong-lanceolate or uppermost 

 ovate, acuminate, 5 to 9 in the lower whorl, 2 to 4 in the upper, 

 nearly sessile : pedicels (3 to 10) slender, an inch long or less : peri- 

 anth-segments 3 or 4 lines long, exceeding the stamens, shorter than 

 the purple stigmas: berry 2 or 3 lines in diameter; cells usually 



