SWISS FLOWERS. 107 



longe and Pommier ; foot of the Voirons ; Wood of Barioz, 

 near Annecy ; Mont Brizon, near Bonneville ; Apremont, 

 near Chambery. 



86. Maianthemum (Convallaria). 



(PLATE XLVIIL) 



We can scarcely call the Lily of the Valley the ornament 

 of our woods, though it is plentiful in some counties of 

 England, growing by acres near Brigg, in Lincolnshire j* 

 and the Solomon's Seal is very rare indeed. Still rarer is 

 the pretty little allied plant M. bifolium (Fig. 86), which 

 abounds in the Swiss woods. Its stem, four or five inches 

 high, bears two alternate leaves, very deeply heart-shaped, 

 on short stalks, ending in a raceme, about an inch long, of 

 very small white flowers, stalked, with tiny bracteas, four or 

 six stamens, and four or six divisions to the perianth. The 

 berry is small red. Mountain, especially fir, woods : Pilatus, 

 Maderaner Thai, &c. 



* In the Lily Woods, the property of the Earl of Yarborough. 



