Uvuwaria. CLUI. LILIACEE. - 553 
long, $ as wide, acuminate, smooth. Flowers 4—8, white, 6-parted, the 
segments spreading. May. 
3. C. steLLaTa. (Smilacina. Desf.) Star-flowered Solomon’s Seal. 
St. erect; vs. numerous, 3-veined, lanceolate, amplexicaul, acute; fls. 
few, in a simple, terminal raceme.—2| Along rivers, Can. and Northern States, 
W. to the Miss. Stem 10—20’ high, round and smooth. Leaves 8—10, smooth, 
glaucous beneath, 4—6' by 9—12”, tapering to the apex. Flowers white, about 
8, stellate, rather larger than in the next. May, Jn. 
4, C. racemosa. (Smilacina. Desf.) Clustered Solomon’s Seal. 
St. recurved ; lvs. oval, acuminate, subsessile; rac. compound.—2 A lar- 
ger species than the preceding. Rhizoma thick, sweet to the taste. Stem 
14—2f high, downy, gracefully recurved at top. Leaves 4—6! long, about 4 as 
wide, contracted into a long acumination, veined, minutely pubescent. Peti- 
oles 0—2’ long. Flowers very numerous, small, white, on white pedicels, and 
with white, exserted, tapering filaments, constituting a large, compound, ter- 
minal raceme. 
§ 3 Crintronta. Pertanth subcampanulate, 6-parted. Berry 2-celled. 
5. C.. BorEALIs. (C. umbellulata. Miche. Dracena. Ait. Clintonia. 
Raf.) Wild Lily of the Valley—-Scape umbellate ; lvs. broad-oval-lance- 
olate ; fis. cernuous; berries blue.—2| Mountainous or hilly woods, Can., N. 
Eng. to Car., W. to the Miss. Rhizoma creeping to some extent. Leaves 
47’ long, 4 as wide, petiolate, radical or nearly so, smooth and glossy, fringed 
with scattered hairs. Scape erect, round, 8—13' high, bearing at top a beauti- 
ful umbel of 3—6 yellowish-green, nodding flowers. Perianth liliaceous, of 6 
oblanceolate, erect-spreading segments. Berries of arich amethystine blue. Jn. 
6. C. masiuis. Lily of the Valley—Scape naked, smooth, semi-cylindric ; 
Wws. nearly radical, ovate; rac. simple, 1-sided_—2 An elegant, sweet-scented 
plant, native of woods at the South, and is, or deserves to be, a frequent inhabi- 
tant of our gardens. Leaves 2, seldom 3, ovate-elliptical. Scape 6’ high, with 
white flowers depending from its upper half in a single rank. May. 
13. POLYGONATUM. 
_ Gr. 70)vs, many, yovv, knee; from the many-jointed rhizoma. 
Perianth tubular, cylindrical, 6-cleft; stamens inserted near the 
summit of the tube; berry globose, 3-celled, cells 2-seeded.—sS¢. 
simple. Lvs. alternate. Fls. axill@@y. 
P. mutTirLoruM. Desf. (P. latifolium, angustifolium, biflorum, pubes- 
cens and canaliculatum, of P/., &c.)—St. recurved, smooth; lws. distich- 
ous, lanceolate, amplexicau], smooth above; peduncles axillary, 1—4-flowered. 
—1| in woods, free States and Can. Stem 1—3f high, most recurved in the 
tallest plants. Leaves more or less clasping at base, or only sessile in the 
smallest plants, 2—6’ by 1—23’, veined, smooth and glossy above, paler and 
generally pubescent beneath. Peduncles filiform, branching, scarcely a fifth as 
long as the leaves. Flowers 5—8” long, pendulous, greenish, sub-cylindric. 
Berries dark blue or blackish when ripe. Jn. 
a. Is. very amplexicaul, smooth both sides, distinctly veined; lower pedun- 
cles 4-flowered.—Plant 2—3f high. In rich, damp soils. 
8. pubescens. Lvs. pubescent beneath, slightly clasping; sé. 1—2f high— 
This variety is most common in New England. 
y- bifora. Lvs. smooth both sides, } as wide as long, sessile; fls. greenish- 
white, 4—5” long; st. round, 1—14f high. 
6. canaliculata. St. channeled on the upper side. 
é. mr Iws. ovate, acuminate, sessile, glabrous.—Stem angled, 4—5f 
high—Middle States. 
14. UVULARIA. 
Perianth deeply 6-parted; segments linear-oblong, acute, erect, 
with a nectariferous cavity at the base of each; filaments very short ; 
