178 LILIACE^E. Streptopus. 



deeply cordate and clasping, 2 to 5 inches long, very rarely slightly scabrous on the 

 margin : peduncles lateral and twisted beneath the leaves, mostly forked or genicu- 

 late, a half to an inch long : perianth greenish white, 4 to 6 lines long, recurved 

 above the middle : anthers 1 or 2 lines long, attenuate to a' single slender awn ; 

 filament deltoid : style elongated ; stigma slightly 3-lobed : berry globose to oblong- 

 ovate, 4 to 6 lines long, the cells 10- 14-seeded. S. distortus, Michx. ; Hook. Fl. 

 Bor.-Am. ii. 173, t. 188. 



Common in the temperate regions of Europe, Asia and N. America ; in the United States 

 ranging south in the mountains to Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Utah, Oregon, and more rarely 

 Northern California. Collected only by Bolander, in a deep gulch near Noyo, Mendocino 

 County ; June. 



S. ROSEUS, Michx. Fl. ii. 201, t. 18 ; usually lower and more slender than the last, and some- 

 what pubescent ; leaves scabrons-ciliate, less cordate or only clasping ; pedicels rather shorter ; 

 flowers rose-purple, 3 or 4 lines long ; anther-cells each apiculate ; stigma 3-cleft : fruit globose, 

 the cells 6 - 8-seeded. From Sitka to Oregon, and perhaps Northern California ; also in British 

 America and the northern Atlantic States. 



S. BREVIPES, Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 592, is known only from small fruiting specimens 

 collected by Dr. Lyall in the Cascade Mountains of Washington Territory. It is glabrous 

 throughout, with very slender rootstocks ; leaves sessile, not at all cordate at base nor ciliate ; 

 fruit globose, on pedicels 3 or 4 lines long, the cells 2 - 8-seeded. It is perhaps only a reduced 

 smooth form of the last. 



23. PROSARTES, D. Don. 



Perianth narrowly campanulate, of 6 distinct oblanceolate deciduous 3 - 5-nerved 

 and net-veined white or greenish segments. Stamens 6, hypogynous; filaments 

 filiform, mostly elongated ; anthers oblong, obtuse, attached within above the base, 

 dehiscent laterally. Ovary sessile, linear, oblong or ovate, 3-celled, mostly with 2 

 suspended ovules in each cell : style slender, entire, or with 3 short spreading stig- 

 mas, deciduous. Fruit a red 3 - 6-seeded berry. Seeds subglobose, with thin close 

 testa and horny albumen. Stems scaly-bracted below, widely branched and leafy 

 above, from running rootstalks ; leaves alternate, sessile (at least the lowest clasp- 

 ing), thin, ovate or lanceolate, several-nerved and net-veined, the uppermost oblique ; 

 flowers solitary or fascicled at the ends of the branches, the slender pedicels not 

 jointed, usually nodding. Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. xiv. 270. 



A wholly North American genus ; two other species are found in the Atlantic States. 



* Perianth broad and gibbously truncate at base: stamens included, vvith elon- 

 gated filaments : style 3-cleft: fruit acute: leaves acuminate, rarely somewhat 

 cordate. 



1. P. Menziesii, Don. More or less woolly-pubescent : stems 1 to 3 feet high : 

 leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, narrowly acuminate or the lowest acute, rounded at 

 base or sometimes slightly cordate, 2 to 5 inches long, often minutely resinous- 

 clotted, at length shining beneath, 3 - 5-nerved, the fainter secondary nerves solitary : 

 flowers 1 to 5 : perianth-segments nearly erect, acute, 6 to 1 1 lines long : stamens a 

 third shorter : style usually more or less woolly above and slightly 3-cleft at the 

 summit : ovary nearly smooth : capsule oblong-obovate, attenuate above into a short 

 usually somewhat villous beak, triangular, 3 - 6-seeded, about 6 lines long, bright 

 salmon-color. Linn. Trans, xviii. 533. Uvularia Smithii, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 

 174, t. 189. 



In the Coast Ranges from Mendocino County to British Columbia ; in moist places. May and 

 June. A strongly marked species ; the leaves are rather thicker and less transparent than in the 

 following. 



* * Perianth narrower and less gibbous at base : style entire : leaves acute or 



shortly acuminate, mostly cordate and d' 



