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Eefs. DISPORUM PARVIFOLITJM Britton, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 15:188 (1888). Prosartes 

 parvifolM Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:179 (1880), type loc. Siskiyou Mts., Battan (in fl., June, 1879). 



4. D. smithii Piper. FAIRY LANTERN. One to 3 feet high, soft-pubescent 

 or almost glabrous ; leaves round-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, rounded or subcordate 

 (and often a little oblique) at base, at apex abruptly acute or attenuate, 2 to 

 4% inches long; perianth whitish, broad and cup-shaped at base, % to 1 inch 

 long, the tips of the segments erect ; stamens % shorter than the perianth ; berry 

 yellow, oblong-obovate, attenuate above into a short beak. 



Stream banks, Coast Range woods very near the coast: San Mateo Co. to 

 Del Norte Co. North to British Columbia. Apr. 



Locs. Muir Woods, A. L. Grant; Inverness, Jepson 1716; Noyo Eiver, CJiarlotte Soak; 

 Westport, Jepson; Del Norte Co., Goddard. 



Kefs. DISPORUM SMITHII Piper, Contrib. II. S. Nat. Herb. 11:201 (1906). Uvularia smithii 

 Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:174, t. 189 (1839), type loc. Nootka Sound, Menzies. Prosartes menziesii 

 Don, Trans. Linn. Soc. 1:48 (1839). Disporum menziesii Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 15:188 

 (1888); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 127 (1901). 



26. SMILACINA Desf. 



Stem simple and leafy, from a horizontal rootstock, bearing a terminal raceme 

 or panicle of small white flowers with minute bracts. Leaves sessile, many- 

 nerved. Pedicels jointed at the summit. Perianth persistent, the segments dis- 

 tinct and spreading. Stamens inserted at the base of the segments; anthers 

 versatile. Style 3-lobed at the surmnit, persistent ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit 

 a globose 1 to 3-seeded berry. Seeds sub-globose, with thin testa and horny 

 endosperm. Species about 20, North America and Asia. (Diminutive of smilax.) 



Flowers in a simple raceme; stamens shorter than the perianth-segments; filaments not dilated. 



Leaves spirally arranged, often folded 1. S. stellata. 



Leaves mostly 2-ranked, commonly flat 2. S. sessilifolia. 



Flowers in a panicle; stamens much longer than the perianth-segments; filaments dilated 



3. S. amplexicaulis. 



1. S. stellata Desf. STAR-FLOWER. Stem % to 2 feet high; rootstock stout; 

 herbage pale; leaves oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, often somewhat 

 folded on the midrib, sessile and clasping, 3 to 5% inches long; raceme open, 

 6 to 20-flowered ; pedicels 2 to 6 lines long ; perianth-segments 2 to 3!/o lines 

 long ; stamens % as long as the perianth-segments ; style nearly equaling the 

 ovary; berry at first with 6 dark-brown longitudinal stripes or bands on a 

 greenish or whitish ground, eventually black. 



Crests and east side of the Sierra Nevada ; desert ranges of Mono and Inyo 

 cos., south to Southern California, and east to the Atlantic. 



Locs. Fandango Valley, Warner Mts., L. S. Smith 931; Jess Valley, Modoc Co., Jepson 

 7941 ; Long Valley, Lassen Co., Jepson 7783 ; Kennedy Mdws., upper Stanislaus River, Jepson 

 6541; Sonora Peak, A. L. Grant 393; Silver Canon, White Mts., Jepson 7203; Burdick, Owens 

 Valley, Almcda Nordyke; San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 1682. 



Refs. SMILACINA STELLATA Desf. Ann. Mus. Par. 9:52 (1807). Convallaria stellata L. Sp. 

 PI. 1:316 (1753), type from Canada; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1043 (1807). 



2. S. sessilifolia Nutt. SLIM SOLOMON. Similar to S. stellata and perhaps 

 only a variety of it ; rootstock slender ; herbage bright green ; upper part of stem 

 commonly somewhat arcuately curving and the flat leaves disposed to be 2- 

 ranked ; leaves oblong-ovate to lanceolate ; raceme commonly 3 to 9-flowered ; 

 stamens !/2 to % as long as the perianth-segments; berry red, 1 to 4-seeded, 3 to 

 5 lines broad. 



Common in shady woods and on moist brushy slopes: Coast Ranges, mostly 

 near the coast ; Sierra Nevada. North to "Washington. 



Locs. Independence Lake, Plait; Yosemite, Muir; Natural Bridge, Tulare Co., Culbert- 

 son 4362; Big Creek, Santa Lucia Mts., Marion Parsons; San Juan, San Benito Co., Brewer 



