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specific rank. The following specimens, while conforming in 
general to Dietrich’s description, vary somewhat in leaf-shape, 
‘ length of peduncles, number of flowers, etc., sometimes much 
exceeding the measurements of the original description. In that 
description the plants were 3 feet high, though they attained a 
height of 714 ft. in the Edinburgh Garden; the peduncles 6-8 
lines long, bearing 3-4 flowers on pedicels 4-6 lines long; the leaves 
oval, glaucous beneath. In the specimens of P. giganteum 
examined, the stem in one case attained a diameter of 2 cm., the 
(flat) peduncles a length of 11 cm. (bearing as many as nine 
flowers), the leaves a size of 19 KX 10 cm. Most of the speci- 
mens were, however, much smaller, though usually larger and with 
more numerous pedicels than in Dietrich’s material. Farwell’s 
specimens (1. 78) from Michigan have smaller flowers (14-16 mm.). 
PENNSYLVANIA: Crum Creek near Philadelphia, June 7, 1870, 
J. H. Redfield 8187. District or CotumBia: Washington, June 
12, 1878, J. W. Chickering, Jr. Ounto: Springfield, M. G. Williams. 
ILLINOIS: woody bluffs southeast of East Carondelet, September 
4, 1891, E. Douglas. WISCONSIN: Racine, September I1, 1879, 
J. J. Davis; Kilbourn, August 15, 1892, Mrs. Wallace (leaves 
14 X 7.5 cm., broadly elliptical, very obtuse). KrntTucKy; Bowl- 
ing Green, June, 1899, Sadie F. Price. Missouri: Woodlawn, 
September 19, 1878, G. Engelmann; Hannibal, May, 1906, John 
Davis 12001; St. Louis, July or August, 1891, collector unnamed. 
NEBRASKA: Sargent’s Hill, June, 1853, F. V. Hayden; St. Helena, 
T. A. Bruhin; Lincoln, August, 1889, H. J. Webber. Also the 
following: “A. A. M.,” June, 1858 (Herb. Fritchey); “from 
Niobrarah River to Fort Pierre, June, 1859, F. V. Hayden 
(Reynold’s Expedition to the headwaters of the Missouri and 
Yellowstone Rivers). 
7. POLYGONATUM PARVIFLORUM (Poir.) Dietr. 
Convallaria parviflora Poir. Encyc. Suppl. 4: 29. 1816. 
Polygonatum parviflorum Dietr.; Otto & Dietr. Gartenz. 3: 222. 
1835. 
This species is unidentified. Its description is as follows: 
C. foliis subsessilibus, ovato-oblongis, glabris; _pedunculis axillaribus bi-raro 
trifloris minimis. 
The flowers are further said to be small, white, half as large as 
