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LILIACE^I. 



RUSCUS ACULEATUS (Butcher's Broom, Knee Holly). 



and universally admired garden plant, equally prized 

 for its globular, pure white flowers, and for its delicious 

 perfume. Fl. May. Perennial. 



4. POLYGONATUM (Solomon's Seal). 



1. P. multiflorum (Solomon's Seal). Stem roundish, 

 bearing numerous elliptical leaves, which are all turned 

 one way, and opposite them small clusters of drooping 

 flowers, which are all turned the other way ; filaments 



