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oblong, small, with few divaricate branches: flowers small (2 lines 
broad), on very short pedicels: style very short. — Jalapa. 
9. S. LAXIFLORA (Zovaria, Baker). Leaves 6 to 9: panicle del- 
toid, with ascending branches: flowers twice larger, on pedicels 3 to 
6 lines long: style as long as the ovary. — Guatemala. 
* * Flowers mostly fascicled in a simple raceme. 
10. S. scrtLorpes, Mart. & Gal. Leaves 6 or 8, narrowly oblong : 
raceme straight: flowers small: style as long as the ovary. — Central 
Mexico. 
11. S. rLexuosa, Bertol. Leaves 10 or 12, oblong to ovate: 
raceme very flexuous: flowers large: style twice longer than the 
ovary. — Guatemala. 
20. MAIANTHEMUM, Weber. 
1. M. CanapeEnseE, Desf. Pubescent or glabrous, 3 to 5 inches 
high: leaves lanceolate to ovate, cordate at base with a narrow sinus, 
sessile or very shortly petioled: perianth-segments a line long: style 
slender, as long as the ovary: berry 1} to 2 lines in diameter: seeds 
light-colored, scarcely over a line thick.— Ann. Mus. Par. 9. 52; 
DC. in Red. Lil. t. 216, f. 1. Smilacina Canadensis, Pursh; Bart. 
Fl. N. Am. t. 70. Convallaria Canadensis, Poir. Smilacina bifolia, 
var. Canadensis, Gray. Labrador to the Saskatchewan, south to 
Iowa, Illinois and N. Carolina. 
2. M. srrotium, DC. Low and slender, somewhat pubescent: 
leaves ovate-cordate with a broad sinus, the lower rather abruptly 
acute and with a petiole } to an inch long, the upper more attenuate 
and petiole shorter: style long and slender: berry 2 lines in diameter, 
1—2-seeded: seed brown, a line thick. — Var. (?) prLratatuM, Wood. 
Stouter (6 to 12 inches high), glabrous: leaves broader, the lower 
subreniform-cordate with petioles often 2 inches long or more: flowers 
rather larger: style shorter, stout: berry larger, 2—4-seeded: seed 
brownish, 14 lines thick. — Proc. Philad. Acad. 1868, 174. Smilacina 
dilataiwwm, Nutt. in herb. California (Marin County) to Alaska. 
Apparently connected with the typical form by var. Kamschaticum 
of Eastern Siberia, with slender style. The present form seems to 
recur also in Japan. 
21. NOLINA, Michx. 
* Fruit somewhat inflated, the cells not burst by the ripening seed. 
1. N. Georerana, Michx. Stem slender from a thick rhizome, 
1 to 3 feet high, including the simple sparingly branched panicle: 
