﻿Farwell: Michigan Species of Polygonatum 257 



Stems 20 dm. or more in height, 18 mm. in diameter near the 

 base, the lower naked portion about 9 dm. high; upper portion 

 carrying about twenty-eight sessile or subsessile leaves, which are 

 round-ovate or oval (30-37 mm. wide by 60-90 mm. long), with 

 about fifty-three more or less conspicuous nerves; peduncles flat, 

 2 mm. wide by 90 mm. in length, rigid; pedicels 25 mm. or less, 

 subequal; flowers usually four (two to five), 14-16 mm. long by 

 4-6 mm. wide; fruit 20 mm. in diameter ripening fifteen seeds, 5 

 mm. wide. [Plate 18.] 



Moist elder thickets. Michigan: Rochester, June, 1914, Far- 

 well 34/3. The hyaline subulate bracts of the pedicels, which in 

 the other species are small (2 mm. long) and early deciduous, are 

 in this variety large (4-8 mm. long) and persistent, at least in 



The author wishes to thank Miss Mary A. Day, of the Gray 

 Herbarium, most heartily for transcripts of the original descrip- 

 tions of Walter and Willdenow and for a sketch of Willdenow's 

 plate of C. pubescens which is herewith reproduced for comparison ; 

 for a like purpose a photograph of the narrow-leaved plant (P. 

 biflorum) collected by Dr. Rusby is also reproduced. 

 Department of Botany, 



Parke, Davis & Company. 

 Detroit, Michigan 



