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1. L. saltue'nsis Fernald. Plant loosely caespitose, often stoloniferous, 1-4 

 dm. high ; leaves lance-linear, hairy, the basal 0.6-1 cm. wide ; umbel mostly 

 simple, the peduncles loosely ascending or spreading ; sepals and petals broadly 

 lanceolate, pale brown or straw-colored, with hyaline margins, shorter than the 

 conic-ovoid pointed capsule ; seeds with a long curved appendage. (L. vernalis 

 Man. ed. 6, not DC. ; J. pilosum Coville, not Ktze.) Woods and banks, Nfd. to 

 Sask., N. Y., Mich., and Minn., and in the mte. to Ga. Apr., May. (E. Asia.) 



2. L. parviflbra (Ehrh.) Desv. Nearly smooth (1.6-9 dm. high); leaves 

 broadly linear, the basal 7-13 mm. wide; corymb decompound, loose; pedicels 

 drooping ; sepals pointed, straw-color, about the length of the minutely pointed 

 and brown (tardily black) capsule ; seeds not appendaged. (L. spadicea, var. 

 melanocarpa Mey.) Low woods and mountain slopes, Lab. to Alaska., s. to 

 N. B., Me., White Mts., w. Mass., n. N. Y., Great Lakes ; and in the Rocky Mts. 

 June, July. (Eurasia.) 



3. L. NEMOR6SA (Poll.) Mey. Loosely caespitose (4-8 dm. high); leaves 

 long, linear, erect, more or less hairy, the basal 3-5 mm. wide ; inflorescence 

 diffusely corymbiform, 3-15 cm. long, the ultimate branchlets terminated by 

 3-8-flowered glomerules ; sepals and petals lanceolate, acute, the sepals dis- 

 tinctly shorter, about equaled by the apiculate-beaked trigonous-ovoid dark 

 capsule. Open woods, Riverdale, N. Y. ; Niagara Falls, Ont. June, July. 

 (Introd. from Eu.) 



4. L. confusa Lindeberg. Caespitose (0.5-3 dm. high); leaves linear, chan- 

 neled ; spikes 1-5, on unequal ascending or rarely recurved peduncles, ovoid, 

 chestnut-brown, the largest 5-8 mm. thick ; sepals taper-pointed, longer than 

 the obtuse capsule ; seeds not appendaged. (L. arcuata Man. ed. 6, not Mey. ; 

 L. hyperborea R. Br., in part.) Alpine summits, Me., N. H., and far northw. 

 July, Aug. (Eurasia.) 



6. L. spicata (L.) DC. Densely caespitose (1-5 dm. high); leaves channeled, 

 narrowly linear ; flowers in sessile clusters, forming an interrupted spiked pan- 

 icle, brown ; sepals bristle-pointed, scarcely as long as the abruptly short-pointed 

 capsule ; seeds merely with a roundish projection at base. Alpine regions, 

 N. E. and n. N. Y., and far northw. June-Aug. (Eurasia.) 



6. L. campestris (L.) DC. Loosely caespitose and strongly stoloniferous 

 (0.5-2 dm. high); leaves linear, flat, hairy; spikes 2-6, globose (6-7 mm. thick), 

 irregularly umbeled, 1 or 2 subsessile, the others on wide-spreading or decurved 

 peduncles ; flowers castaneous, 3 mm. long ; sepals bristle-pointed, longer than 

 the obtuse capsule ; seeds with a conical appendage at base. Eurasia. 



Var. multiflbra (Ehrh.) Celak. Densely caespitose (1.5-6 dm. high); spikes 

 3-12, subglobose or subcylindric (5-6 mm. thick), mostly on ascending or erect 

 simple or slightly forked peduncles (sometimes congested) ; the ferruginous or 

 pale brown (rarely green) calyx 2.5^3 mm. long, often equaled by the capsule. 

 (L. campestris Am. auth., not DC.) Fields, meadows, and open woods, very 

 common, Nfd. to the Pacific, s. to Pa., Great Lakes, etc. Apr.-July. (Eur- 

 asia.) 



Var. frigida Buchenau. Similar to var. multiftora, but with the subglobose 

 short-peduncled heads castaneous or nearly black. Lab. and Nfd. to N. B. and 

 Me. (N. Eu.) 



Var. bulbbsa A. Wood. Somewhat resembling var. multiftora, but with some 

 or all of the rays divergent, and the base sometimes but not always producing 

 small bulblets. (Juncoides Small.) Woods, generally near streams, D. C. to 

 Ind., Kan., and south w. 



LILlACEAE (LILT FAMILY) 



Herbs, or rarely woody plants, with regular and symmetrical almost always 

 6-androus flowers ; the perianth not glumaceous, free from the chiefly 3-r</!e<l 

 ovary ; the stamens 1 before each of itx divisions or lobes (i e. 6, in one in- 

 stance 4), with 2-celled anthers; fruit a few-many-seeded pod or berry ; the 

 small embryo inclosed in copious albumen. Seeds anatropous or auiphitropous 



