176 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
I am indebted to Mr. Wilkinson of Scarborough for a fine series of 
fresh specimens of this plant from the Forge Valley station. 
Two-leaved Smilacina. 
German, Zweibliitrige Schattenblume. 
GENUS II—POLYGONATUM. Tournef. 
Perianth tubular-cylindrical, clavate, coloured, deciduous; limb 
with 6 minute suberect or spreading-ascending teeth at the apex. 
Stamens 6, inserted in the middle of the perianth tube, included; 
anthers rather long. Ovary free, sessile, 3-celled; ovules 2 to 6 
in each cell; style slender; stigma subcapitate, obscurely 3-lobed. 
Berry globose, 3- to 6-seeded. Seeds subglobose; testa thin, pale or 
fuscous. 
Herbs with thick creeping rhizomes, and simple erect or arching 
leafy stems. Leaves sessile, usually alternate, rarely opposite or ver- 
ticillate, striate. Flowers rather large, greenish-white (rarely pink), 
drooping, on axillary 1- or few-flowered peduncles. 
The name of this genus is derived from the Greek words zodvc, many, and 
yovu, angle or joint, from the many joints of the rootstock. 
SPECIES I—POLYGONATUM VERTICILLATUM. Ali. 
Prats MDXI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCXXXV 
Billot, F). Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 2546. 
Convallaria verticillata, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 128; and Engl. Fl. Vol. I. 
p. 154. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 814. Reich. lc. p. 5. 
Stem erect, angular, glabrous. Leaves in whorls of 3 to 7, spread- 
ing all round the stem, sessile, strapshaped or lanceolate-strapshaped, 
wedgeshaped at the base, gradually attenuated from near the middle 
to the apex, acute, membranous. Peduncles from the axils of the 
lower and middie leaves, forked at the apex, 2- (more rarely 3- or 1-) 
flowered, without bracts at the fork. Flowers pendulous. Perianth 
tubular-cylindrical, contracted near the middle, white. Filaments 
papillose. | 
On a wooded bank not far from Smailsmouth, near Bellingham, — 
in North Tynedale, Northumberland, where it was found by Mr. — 
Makepeace; Den of Rechep, near Dunkeld, Perthshire. Dr. Walker-_ 
Arnott also gives two other Perthshire localities; viz., parish of 
Rattray (in various places), and Blair Athol. 
