774 ~~ ORD. XLVI. Liliacee. 
CONVALLARIA POLYGONATUM. COMMON SOLOMON’s 
SEAL. > 
SYNONYMA. Convallaria. Pharm. Edinb. Polygonatum 
latifolium flore majore odoro. Bauh. Pin. 303. Polygonatum 
floribus ex singularibus pediculis. J. Bauh, iii. p. 529, 
Polygonatum majus flore majore. Park. Theat. p.696. Sweet- 
smelling Solomon’s Seal. Gerard. Emac. 904. . Raii Synopsis, — 
p. 263. Spec. 2. Rati Histor. p. 665. Withering. Bot. 
Arrang. p. 354: lor. Dan. Icon. 337, 
8 Polygonatum Hellebori albi roe caule re ‘Rati 
Synop. 263. 
Gayierondsis. ve d. Monogynia._ Lin. Gen. Plant. 425. 
Ess. Gen. Ch fida 
Sp. Ch. C. foliis alternis amplexicaulibus,; = ancipit, i ped 
culis axillaribus subunifloris. 
‘et maculosa. $-locularis. 
THE root is perennial, horizontal, white, fibrous, beset with 
knobs, and said * to be marked with circular depressions, resem- 
bling the i impressions of a seal; hence the name Solomon’s Seal. 
The stalk is inclined, angular, smooth, and rises about a, foot i in 
height: the leaves are oval, pointed, ribbed, smooth, above of. a 
deep green colour, underneath glaucous, and at the base embrace 
the stem: the flowers are long, bell-shaped, white, or tinged with. 
green; divided at the « extremity into six short segments, and hang 
from the same side of the stalk upon slender peduncles: the fila-. 
ments are six, tapering, short, and inserted i in the corolla: the 
anther are oblong and erect: the style is | filiform, longer than 
the stamina, and crowned with a blunt triangular stigma: the 
germen is round, and when ripe becomes a black berry, divided” 
* These depressions are more peculiarly characteristic of the Conyallaria multiflora, - 
