656 CONVALLARIACEZ VAGNERA 
or laterally dehiscent. Ovary 1-3-celled: ovules anatropous or 
amphitropous. Style slender or short: stigma mostly 3-lobed. 
Fruit a fleshy few- to numerous-seeded berry. Embryo small, 
in copious albumen. 
1 Vagnera Leaves alternate: flowers small, in a simple terminal raceme 
or panicle, six-merous: filaments subulate. 
2 Unifolium Leaves alternate: flowers small, in a simple terminal ra- 
ceme, four-merous: filaments filiform. 
3 Streptopus Leaves alternate, sessile: flowers small or middle-size, 
six-merous, extra-axillary: filaments flattened, short and broad. 
4 Disporum Leaves alternate: flowers middle-size, in terminal fascicles, 
six-merous: filaments filiform or somewhat flattened, longer than the 
anthers. 
5 Clintonia Leaves all radical: flowers middle-size, six-merous in a ter- 
minal umbel: filaments filiform. 
6 Secoliopis Leaves a pair upon an otherwise naked stem: flowers 
middle-size, umbeliate upon a very short peduncle, tri-merous: fila- 
ments filiform-subulate. ; 
7 Trillium Leaves 3, whorled at the summit of the otherwise naked 
stem : flowers large, solitary and teminal, tri-merous: filaments short. 
1 VAGNERA Adans. Fam. Pl, ii, 496. (1763) 
SMILACINA Desf. (1807) 
Herbs with simple leafy stems, broad mostly sessile alternate 
leaves and small white flowers on jointed pedicels in terminal 
bracteate racemes, or panicles. Perianth persistent of 6 distinct, 
1-3-nerved segments. Stamens 6: filaments subulate, inserted at 
the base of the segments: anthers versatile, introrse. Ovary ses- 
sile, ovate, 3 celled, with 2, usually collateral ovules in each cell. 
Style short and thick, 3-lobed at the summit, persistent. Fruit a 
globose 1-3-seeded berry. Seeds subglobose, with thin testa and 
horny albumen. 
* Flowers panicled, very small: stamens exceeding the oblong-lan- 
ceolate segments of the perianth. 
Vv. amplexicaulis Greene. Smilacina amplexicaulis Nutt. Stems several 
from a stout elongated rootstock, 1-3 feet long ascending, covered with a 
short spreading pubescence: leaves ovate to lanceolate 3-7 inches long, 
strictly sessile and amplexicaul or sometimes with a very short dilated 
clasping petiole, acute, rounded at base: usually pubescent with very short 
stiff hairs: panicle sessile or shortly peduncled, 2-9 inches pip ds pedicels 
solitary usually less than a line long: segments of the perianth less than a 
line long: filaments more or less broadly subulate, often broader than the 
segments : style nearly as.long as the ovary: berries light red, finely dotted 
with purple, 2-3 lines in diameter, usually 1-seeded ; seed whitish, 144 lines 
broad. In the Coast ranges, Brit. Columbia to California. 
VY. racemosa Morong Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, v, 114. Smilacina race- 
mosa Desf. Stems often stout, erect or ascending, somewhat angled, finely 
pubescent above or nearly glabrous, 1-3 feet high, from a thick fleshy root- 
stock: leaves oblong-lanceolate to oval, sessile, or the lower ones short- 
petioled, 3-6 inches long, 1-3 inches wide, acumin ate, finely pubescent 
