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roots of the 1-flowered plant from Settle; but these have not yet 
flowered with me, so I cannot say whether they will remain distinct 
in the garden, though I have some suspicion that var. 6 is merely a 
luxuriant state of the plant. 
My dried specimens of the Leigh Wood form are intermediate; 
they have mostly 1-flowered peduncles, but in other respects closely 
resemble var. &. The station is, I believe, now destroyed, and I have 
been unable to procure living plants from it. : 
Angular-stemmed Solomon's Seal. 
French, Muguet de serpent. German, Salomonssiegel, 
GENUS IV—CONVALLARIA. “TLinn.” Auct. 
Flowers perfect. Perianth cupshaped-bellshaped, coloured, deci- 
duous; limb with six large recurved teeth at the apex. Stamens 6, 
inserted near the base of the perianth tube, included; anthers rather 
long. Ovary free, sessile, 3-celled; ovules 2 to 6 in each cell; 
style thick; stigma bluntly 3-lobed. Berry globose, 2- to 6-seeded. 
Seeds subglobose, angulated ; testa thin, fuscous. 
An herb with creeping slender rhizomes and no stem, but with 2 
(rarely 5) radical leaves, with the petioles enclosed in a membranous 
sheath. Flowers rather large, pendulous, white, in a raceme at the 
extremity of a naked scape. 
The name of this genus is derived from the Latin word convallis, a valley, because 
it is found abundantly in valleys. 
SPECIES I—-CONVALLARIA MAIALIS. Lin. 
Pirate MDXIV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCX XXII. 
Billot, F). Gall. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 290. 
The only known species. 
In woods. Rather local, but widely distributed throughout 
England. Rare in Scotland, and doubtfully native; but the Rev. G. 
Gordon and Mr. W. A. Stables “deem it clearly indigenous in 
Moray” (Cyb. Brit. vol. ii. p. 467). Naturalised in several places 
in Ireland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Early Summer. 
Rootstock slender, extensively creeping, the extremity of the 
branches sending up in spring a pair of radical leaves on long stalks, 
accompanied or not bya fluwering scape, the whole enclosed in several 
