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2. V. INTERMEDIUM, Chapman. Apparently very similar to the 
last: leaves narrower: panicle more open and slender: pedicels 
slender, 3 or 4 lines long, about equalling the flowers: perianth 
pubescent: fruit unknown. — Flora, 489. Middle Florida. 
x * Stem stout, very leafy, the leaves broad-elliptical and sheathing: flowers 
yellowish-green or whitish, the segments serrulate or entire: ovary gla- 
brous: capsule oblong-ovate, acute, many-seeded. 
3. V. VIRIDE, Ait. Stem 2 to 7 feet high: leaves acute, the upper- 
most lanceolate and acuminate: branches of the simple panicle slender 
and more or less drooping: bracts foliaceous, lanceolate, usually nearly 
equalling the flowers: perianth greenish, adnate to the attenuate base 
of the capsule; segments oblanceolate, ciliate-serrulate, 4 to 6 lines 
long: stamens 2 or 3 lines long: capsule an inch long. — Bigel. Med. 
Bot. 2. 121, t. 33. Melanthium braeteolare, Desr. Helonias viride, 
Ker, Bot. Mag. t. 1096. V. parviflorum, Bong. V. Eschscholtzit, 
Gray. Georgia to Canada, and thence to Washington Territory and 
Alaska. 
4, V. Catirrornicum, Durand. Similar: upper leaves lanceolate, 
but rarely acuminate: branches of the sometimes compound panicle 
ascending: bracts ovate-lanceolate, submembranous, usually little ex- 
ceeding the pedicels: perianth-segments broader, obtuse, whitish with 
greener base, often denticulate above, 3 to 8 lines long, slightly adnate 
to the capsule: stamens 3 to 5 lines long: capsule an inch long or 
more. — Journ. Philad. Acad. 3.103. V. album, auth. Colorado and 
Wyoming to N. California and Oregon. 
* * x Stem stout and leafy; leaves oblong to lanceolate, mostly sheathing : 
perianth-segments fimbriate, somewhat biglandular: capsule obovate, 
obtuse, few-seeded. 
5. V..rruprratum, Gray. Leaves narrowed at base, 6 to 18 
inches long by 2 to 6 wide or more, acute or acuminate: branches of 
the panicle spreading: bracts ovate : perianth-segments rhombic-ovate, 
3 to 5 lines long: capsule depressed and somewhat emarginate, 4 lines 
long: seeds oblong, scarcely winged. — Proc. Amer, Acad. 7. 391. 
California (Mendocino County). 
41. STENANTHIUM, Gray. 
1. S. aNGusTIFOLIUM, Gray. Stem leafy, 3 or 4 feet high, 
very slender: leaves.2 or 3 lines broad: panicle elongated, nearly 
simple, very open; branches slender and flexuous: flowers polygamous 
or subdicecious, nearly sessile or the fertile on short pedicels; peri- 
