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Polygonatum commutatum Dietr.; Otto & Dietr. Gartenz. 3: 223. 
1835 
Polygonatum multiflorum B americanum Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 
176. 1840 (in part). 
Polygonatum latifolium var. commutatum Baker, Jour. Linn. Soc. 
Bot. 14: 555. 1875. 
Polygonatum biflorum commutatum Morong, Mem. ree Club 5: 
II5. 1894. 
Salomonia commuiata Britton, Man. 273. 1901. 
Georgia to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, South Dakota and Okla- 
homa, probably extending north into Canada. 
This appears to be the most widely distributed of all the species. 
It varies considerably within the range indicated, and other 
segregates may be detached from it later. The following speci- 
mens in the herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden are here 
referred to it: 
PENNSYLVANIA: Conewago, May, 1889, J. H. Eby; George 
School woods, June 2, 1906, Elma M. Eves. Groraia: cliffs of 
the Coosa River, Rome, 1872, A. W. Chapman 3886, 3917. 
TENNESSEE: Knoxville, April and May, 1898, Albert Ruth 148, 
781 (the latter specimen intermediate between P. commutatum 
and P. biflorum hebetifolium, leaves 38 X 12 cm.). WISCONSIN: 
Mirror Lake, Sauck County, July 13, 1903, H. Eggert. Iowa: 
Iowa City, A. S. Hitchcock. Missouri: St. Louis, June, 1892, 
H. Eggert; Wasco, August 20, 1911, John Davis 987. SouTH 
Daxota: Vermillion, May 22, 1911, S. S. Vischer 4018; Oakwood, 
Thomas A. Williams; Oakwood, May 23, 1902, A. G. Johnson. 
NEBRASKA: Nuckolls County, August, 1899, George C. Hedgcock 
(three sheets); southwest of Lincoln, June 5, 1900, George C. 
Hedgcock; South Bend, May 12, 1900, George C. Hedgcock. Kan- 
sas: Cowley County, June, 1898, Mark White; Riley County, 
1896, J. B. Norton 834; Fort Riley, Geary County, July 2, 1895, 
C. H. Thompson. OKLAHOMA: Sapulpa, July 27, 1894, B. F. 
Bush 578 (‘‘uncommon’’). 
/5a. Polygonatum commutatum virginicum (Greene) comb. nov. 
Polygonatum virginicum Greene, Leaflets 1: 181. 1906. 
Polygonatum biflorum virginicum Farwell, Bull. Torrey Club 42: 
254. pl. 15, B. 1915. 
