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UNIFOLIUM — 
beneath, the margins minutely ciliate: panicle densely many-flowered, 1-4 
inches long, peduncled: pedicels about a line long: segments of the perianth 
oblong, about a line long: style about half as long as the ovary: berries red 
speckled with purple, 2-3 lines in diameter. In moist woods, Oregon to 
Brit. Columbia and across the continent. 
* * Flowers larger, in a simple few-flowered raceme: stamens shorter 
than the segments. 
VY. sessilifolia Greene. Smilacina sessilifolia Nutt. Stems slender, 
usually flexuous above, 10-18 inches high, from slender creeping rootstocks: 
leaves lanceolate, 2-6 inches long, acute or acuminate, sessile and clasping, 
usually flat and spreading, more or less pubescent. racemes 3-9-flowered, 
sessile or shortly peduncled, the solitary pedicels 2-7 lines long: segments of 
the perianth lanceolate, 3-4 lines long, twice as long as the stamens: filaments 
subulate: style about a line long, as long as the ovary: berries usually black 
when mature, globose, 3-5 lines in diameter, 1-3-seeded: seeds brown sub- 
ovoid 144 lines in diameter. In damp forests, Brit. Columbia to California. 
VY. stellata Morong l.c. Smilacina stellata Desf. Stems rather stout, 
erect, glabrous, 8-20 inches high, from a stout fleshy rootstock: leaves lan- 
ceolate to oblong-lanceolate, sessile and somewhat clasping minutely pubes- 
cent beneath 2-5 inches long, 6-18 lines wide, obtuse to acute or acuminate: 
raceme sessile or short peduncled, 6-20-flowered: pedicels 1-4 lines long, 
usually shorter than the flowers: segments of the perianth oblong, obtuse, 
4-5 lines long, 44 longer than the stamens: style about 2 lines long, as long 
as the ovary: berries green with 6 black stripes or black, 3-5 lines in diameter. 
ea) streams in the interior, Brit. Columbia to California and the Eastern 
tates 
2 UNIFOLIUM Adans. Fam, Pl ii, 54. (1763) 
MAIANTHMUM Wiggs. Prim. Fl. Hols. 14. (1780.) 
Low herbs with slender rootstocks, erect simple few-leaved 
stems, alternate petioled leaves and small white flowers in termin- 
al minutely bracted racemes, Perianth of 4 distinct segments. 
Stamens 4, inserted at the base of the segments, with filiform 
filaments and short introrse anthers. Ovary sessile, 2-celled, 
rarely 3-celled, with a pair of ovules in each: cell. Style 2-lobed 
or 2-cleft. Berries globose, 1-4-seeded. 
U. dilatatum. Maianthemum biflorum var. dilatatum Wood. Glabrous: 
stem 2-12 inches high, erect: leaf of the sterile shoots round-cordate, 2—4 
inches in diameter, acute or shortly acuminate, on a slender petiole 2-8 inches 
long; cauline leaves usually 2, cordate to sagittate, with large rounded 
auricles, 2-4 inches long, on slender petloles: often with a subulate bract on 
the peduncle: raceme 1-3 inches long, many-flowered: pedicels spreading, 1-2 
lines long, often 2-4 together: segments of the perianth oblong, obtuse, about 
a line long, at length reflexed: stamens shorter than the segments: style 
stout, about a half line long: berries red, globose, about 3 lines in diameter, 
1-4-seeded: seeds ovate, brown, 144 lines long, In wet places along moun- 
tain streams. California to Alaska, 
3 STREPTOPUS Michx. FI. i, 200. (1803.) 
Branching herbs with stout or slender rootstocks. thin sessile 
alternate leaves and rather small. flowers on slender solitary sim- 
ple or forked extra-axillary peduncles. Perianth narrowly cam- 
