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1. ASPARAGUS L. Asparagus. 



Tall perennial with much branched stems from thick matted rootstocks; branchlets 

 capillary, often referred to as leaves, the true leaves reduced to small scales; flowers 

 small, greenish yellow, axillary, on jointed pedicels. 



1. Asparagus officinalis L. Sp. PI. 313. 1753. 



Type locality: "Habitat in Europae arenosis." 



New Mexico: Farmiugton; Santa Fe; Mesilla Valley. 



The cultivated asparagus thrives in New Me.xico and is a not uncommon escape in 



the valleys. 



2. SALOMONIA Heist. Solomon's seal. 



Perennial herbs with simple erect stems from creeping rootstocks; leaves sessile 

 or clasping; flowers axillary, nodding, greenish, on jointed pedicels; ovary 3-celled, 

 with 2 to 6 o-\Tiles in each cell; berry black or blue. 



1. Salomonia cobrensis Woot. & Standi. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16: 113. 1913. 

 Type locality: Copper Mines, New Mexico. 

 Range: Mountains of southwestern New Mexico. 

 New Mexico: Copper Mines; near Kingston. 



3. VAGNERA Adans. False Solomon's seal. 



Low plants with running rootstocks, leafy stems, alternate, sessile, lanceolate or 

 elliptic leaves, small, inconspicuous, paniculate or racemose flowers, and reddish 

 fruit. 



key to the species. 



Flowers paniculate; leaves elliptic to oval 1. T'^. amplexicaulis. 



Flowers in a simple raceme; leaves lanceolate 2. V. stellata. 



1. Vagnera amplexicaulis (Nutt.) Greene, Bot. San Fran. Bay 316. 1894. 

 Smilacina amplexicaulis Nutt. Jouna. Acad. Phila. 7: 58. 1834. 



Smilacina racemosa amplexicaulis S. Wats, in King, Geol. Expl. 40th Par. 5: 345. 1871. 



Type locality: " In the valleys of the Rocky Mountains about the sources of the 

 Columbia River." 



Range: British Columbia and Montana to California and New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Sandia Mountains; Tunitcha 

 Mountains; Chama; Mogollon Mountains; Black Range; Organ Mountains; 'Wliite and 

 Sacramento mountains. Damp woods, in the Transition and Canadian zones. 



We have specimens from the Mogollon Mountains in which the leaves are abund- 

 antly variegated with white. 



2. Vagnera stellata (L.) Morong, Mem. Torrey Club 5: 114. 1894. 

 ConvaUaria stellata L. Sp. PI. 316. 1753. 



Smilacina stellata Desf . Ann. Mus. Paris 9: 52. 1807. 



Type locality: Canada. 



Range: British America to Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and California. 



New Mexico: Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Magdalena Mountains; Chama; 

 Mogollon Mountains; Black Range; White Mountains; Sierra Grande. Damp woods, 

 in the Transition and Canadian zones. 



Some of our specimens may represent Vagnera liliacea Greene, but we are unable to 

 separate the two species by any constant character. 



4. STREPTOPUS Michx. Twisted-stalk. 



Perennial from a creeping rootstock, with branched stems and small axillary flowers; 

 perianth segments acute; fruit a red globose many-seeded berry. 



