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culate spatulate obtuse, berries globular. Sum- 

 mit of the Central Alleghanies of Maryland, 

 only found once in 1818 on a single rock, small 

 plant 4 or 5 inches high, flowers snowy white 

 not spotted very small, limb of sepals rotate 

 obovate. Certainly distinct from all the next. 



444. CLINTONIA (Onyx.) ODORATARaf. Dra- 

 cena borealis Big. Conval. umbel. MX. Eat. 

 Smilacina do. P. N. E. T. Leaves oblong 

 elliptical with an obtuse point, ciliate, but nerves 

 smooth, scape elongate pubescent above, umbel 

 multiflore 9-l5flore, a short oblong bract, pedun- 

 cles subequal, sepals unguiculate spatulate un- 

 dulate ovatoblong obtuse, berries globular 

 Mountain bogs from Canada to Carolina says 

 Beck, never met by me, my specimen is from 

 Collins H. and has only 9 flowers, they are 

 white and small but larger than the last, Mi- 

 chaux says they are odorous and have some red 

 dots ; no other kind is odorous. This is the 

 only sp. known or acknowledged by Torrey and 

 others, who have never travelled in the Mts. in 

 the vernal season. 



445. Cl. odorata var. decantha R. my CI. 

 decantha of atl. J. only differ by 10 flowers pe- 

 tals lanceolate (acute ?) 4 leaves oblong acute. 

 In the Mts. of Virginia, seen drv. 



446. CL odorata var. multijiora Raf. my 

 Cl. multifl. of atl. J, only differs by leaves large 

 elliptical acute, scape pedal smooth, umbel of 

 12 to 1$ flowers, white sepals obovate acute ? 

 Seen in the herb, of Torrey as Conval. um- 

 bellata, from Canada, is it odorous ? is it rath- 

 er a var. of the next sp ? 



447. CLINTONIA (Onyx) FULVA Raf. Leaves 

 ample cuneate elliptical acumin. glaucous cili- 

 ate, nerves smooth, soape subequal sulcate cos- 



