658 CONVALLARIACEZ STREPTOPUS 
DISPORUM 
panulate, of 6 distinct deciduous segments. Stamens 6: filaments 
short, deltoid or subulate, inserted on the base of the segments: 
anthers sagittate, acute or acutely attenuate above, attached on 
the inner side near the base, with nearly lateral dehiscence. Ovary 
sessile, 3-celled, with numerous ovules in each cell. Style filiform, 
deciduous, with 3-lobed or 3-cleft stigma. Fruit a many-seeded 
berry. Seeds oblong, with close thin brownish testa. 
S. amplexifolius DC. Fl. France iii, 174. Rootstock short, stout, 
horizontal, covered with fibrous roots: stem stout, 1-3 feet high, dichotom- 
ously branched: leaves lanceolate, 2-5 inches long, 1-2 inches wide, acuminate, 
cordate-clasping at base, glabrous, glaucous beneath: peduncles 1-2 inches 
long, 1-2-flowered bent or twisted at about the middle: segments of the perianth 
greenish-white, 4-6 lines long, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, the tips spread- 
ing or recurved: anthers subulate-pointed: stigma simple, obtuse or trun- 
cate: berry oval, 5-9 lines long, yellow or red. Along mountain streams, 
California to Alaska and across the continent. 
S. roseus Michx, FI. i, 201, t. 18. Stems simple or sparingly branch- 
ed, 6-30 inches high, from a short stout rootstock covered with fibrous roots: 
branches sparingly pubescent: leaves lanceolate-ovate to ovate, 2-4 inches 
long, rather abruptly acuminate, sessile by a broad rounded or slightly cordate 
clasping base, the margins finely ciliate: peduncles 6-12 lines long, one- 
rarely two-flowered: segments of the perianth lanceolate, acuminate, 4-6 
lines long, the tips spreading, purple to rose-color: anther-cells each apiculate: 
style 3-ceft, the spreading branches stigmatic along the inner side: berries 
globose or ovate, 5-6 lines in diameter. In damp woods, Oregon to Alaska 
and the Eastern States. . 
S. brevipes Baker Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv, 594. Stems mostly simple, 
smooth, 6-12 inches high, from very slender rootstocks : leaves lanceolate, 1-3 
inches long, tapering from below the middle to an acuminate apex, sessile 
but not at all cordate at base, very minutely or not at all ciliate: peduncles 
3-6 lines long: segments of the perianth linear-oblong, about 4 lines long, 
less than a line wide, more than twice as long as the stamens: berries globose. 
In damp places in the Cascade Mountains of Washington, 
4 DISPORUM Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. i, 331. (1812.) 
PROSARTES D. Don. (1840.) 
Branching herbs, scaly-bracted below and leafy above, with 
running rootstocks, sessile alternate somewhat oblique leaves and 
rather small flowers in terminal few-flowered umbels. Perianth 
narrowly campanulate, of 6 distinct deciduous segments. Sta- 
mens 6, hypogynous: filaments filiform or somewhat flattened, 
longer than the oblong or linear extrorse anthers. Ovary sessile, 
3-celled. mostly with 2 suspended ovules in each cell. Style 
slender, entire or with 3 short stigmas, deciduous. Fruit a 3-¢- 
seeded berry. Seeds globose, with close testa and horny albumen. 
* Perianth broad and gibbously truncate at base: stamens included, 
with elongated filaments: style 3-cleft: berries acute. 
D. Menziesii B. & H. Gen. iii, 832. Prosartes Menziesii D. Don. More 
r less woolly-pubescent: stems 1-3 feet high, diffusely much branched: 
aves ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, rounded or sometimes slightly cordate 
% base, 2-6 inches long: flowers in fascicles of 2-5, on slender pedicels 6-10 
