iJLiACE^. (lily family.) 527 



short, recurved-spreading, or sometimes united into one ! Eerry ovoid or ob- 

 long, pointed, 3 - 6-seeded, red. — Downy low herbs, with creeping rootstocks, 

 erect stems sparingly branched above, with closely sessile ovate thin and 

 transversely veined leaves, and greenish-yellow drooping flowers, on slender 

 terminal peduncles, solitary or few in an umbel. (Name from Sis, double, and 

 (TTTopd, seed, in allusion to the 2 ovules in each cell.) 



1. D. lanuginOsum, Benth. & Hook. Leaves ovate-oblong, taper- 

 pointed, rounded or slightly heart-shaped at base, closely sessile, downy be- 

 neath; flowers solitary or in pairs; sepals lineai'-lanceolate, taper-pointed (^ 

 long), soon spreading, twice the length of the stamens, greenish ; style smooth ; 

 stigmas 3. (Prosartes lanuginosa, Don.) — Rich woods, western X. Y. to Va. 

 and Ga., west to Ky. and Tenn. May. 



17. CLlNTOlSriA, Raf. 



Perianth of G separate sepals, bell-:;haped, lily-like, deciduous ; the 6 sta- 

 mens inserted at their base. Filaments long and thread-like ; anthers linear 

 or oblong, extrorsely fixed by a point above the base, the cells opening down 

 the / 'argins. Ovar}^ ovoid-oblong, 2 -S-cellcd ; style long; stigmas 2 or 3, or 

 in o rs united into one. Berry few - many-seeded. — Short-stemmed peren- 

 nials, with slender creeping rootstocks, bearing a naked peduncle sheathed at 

 the base by the stalks of 2-4 large oblong or oval ciliate leaves; flowers 

 rather large, umbelled, rarely single. (Dedicated to i)e Witt Clinton.) 



1. C. borealis, Raf. Scape and leaves 5-8' long; umbel 3-6-flowered ; 

 perianth greenish-yellow, somewhat downy outside (3-4" long) ; berrv ovoid, 

 blue; ovules 20 or more. — Cold moist woods, Lab. to N. C, west to Minn. 



2. C. umbell^ta, Torr. Flowers half the size of the last, white, speckled 

 with green or purplish dots; umbel 7nani/-Jlowered ; berry globular, black; 

 ovules 2 in each cell. — Rich woods, in the Alleghanies from N. Y. to Ga. 



18. UVULARIA, L. Belwort. 



Perianth narrowly bell-shaped, lily-like, deciduous; the 6 distinct sepals 

 opatulate-lanceolate, acuminate, obtusely gibbous at base, with a deep honev- 

 bearing groove within bordered on each side by a callus-like ridge. Stamens 

 much shorter, barely adherent to their base ; anthers linear, much longer than 

 the filaments, adnate and cxtrorse, but the long narrow cells opening laterallv. 

 Style deeply 3-cleft ; the divisions stigmatic along the inner side. Capsule 

 truncate, coriaceous, 3-lobed, loculicidal at the summit. Seeds few in each 

 cell, obovoid, with a thin white aril. — Stems rather low, terete, from a short 

 srootstock with fleshy roots, naked or scaly at base, forking above, bearing 

 oblong perfoliate flat and membranaceous leaves with smooth margins, and 

 yellowish drooping flowers, in spring, solitary on terminal peduncles. (Name 

 "from the flowers hanging like the uvula, or palate.") 



1. U. perfoliata, L. Glaucous throughout, i- H° high, with 1-3 leaves 

 below the fork; leaves glabrous, oblong- to ovate-lanceolate, acute; perianth- 

 segments granular-pubescent within (8-1 6'' long) ; stamens shorter than the styles ; 

 tip of the connective acuminate; cells of the capsule with 2 dorsal rido-es and 

 2-beaked at the apex. — Rich woods, N. Eng. to the Dakotas, and southward. 



