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2. Z. glatlCUS, Nutt. Stem l°-3° high from a coated bulb; leaves flat; 

 panicle rather simiile. and few-flowerod ; base of the perianth coherent witli tlic base 

 of the ovary, the thin ovate or ohovate sepals marked with a hn-gc obcordate 

 (/land. (Anticlea ghuica, /!«»//(.) —Along the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes 

 (Bergen Swamp, Gcnnesec Co., New York, G. T. Fish) to N. Illinois: rare. 



* * Glands of the perianth obscure. (Here also Amianthium Nuttallii, Grui/.) 



3. Z. leimanthoides. Stem l°-4° high from a somewhat bulbous base, 

 slender; lea\es narrowly linear; flowers small (4" in diameter) and numerous, 

 in a few crowded panielcd racemes ; only a yellowish spot on the contracted base 

 of the divisions of the free perianth. (Amianthium leimanthoides, Grai/.) — 

 Low grounds, pine barrens of New Jersey (Durand, Kni,skern) and southward. 



5. STENANTHIUM, Gray (under Veratrum). 

 Flowers polygamous. Perianth spreading; the sepals narrowly lanceolate, 



tapering to a point from the broader base, where they are united and coherent 

 ■with the base of the ovary, not gland-bearing, persistent, much longer than the 

 short stamens. Anthers, pods, &c. nearly as in Nos. 4 and 6. Seeds nearly 

 wingless. — Smooth, with a wand-like leafy stem from a somewhat bulbous base, 

 long and grass-like conduplicate-kceled leaves, and numerous small flowers in 

 compound racemes, forming a long terminal panicle ; in summer. (Name com- 

 posed of orfi/o's, narrow, and uvdos, flower, from the slender sepals and panicles.) 

 1. S. angUStifdlium, Gray. Leaves linear, elongated ; flowers (:^' long), 

 white, very short-pedicellcd, in slender racemes ; the prolonged terminal one, 

 and often some of the lateral, fertile. (Veratrum angustifolium, Ptirsh. He- 

 lonias graminea, Bot. Ma(j.) — Low prairies and meadows, Penn. to Illinois and 

 southward towards the mountains. — Stem slender, 2° -6° high. 



6. VERATRUM, Tourn. False Hellebore. 



Flowers monccciously polygamous. Perianth of 6 spreading and separate 

 obovate-oblong (greenish or brownish) sepals, more or less contracted at the 

 base, entirely free from the ovary, not gland-bearing. Filaments free from the 

 sepals and shorter than they, recurving. Anthers, pistils, fruit, &c. nearly as 

 in Mclanthium. — Somewhat pubescent perennials, with simple stems from a 

 thickened base jiroducing coarse fibrous roots (very poisonous), .3-ranked leaves, 

 and racemcd-panicled dull or dingy flowers ; in summer. (Name formed of 

 vere, truly, and ater, black.) 



1. V. viride, Ait. (American White Hellebore. Indian Poke.) 

 Stfm stout, vrri/ l&fi/ to the top (2° -4° high); Icares broadly oval, pointed, 

 sheath clasjiinrj, siromjiij phiitcd; panicle jiyramidal, the dense s/iil-e-like racemes 

 spreading; pcri.anth yellowish-green, moderately spreading. — Swamps and low 

 grounds: common. (Much too near V. album of Europe.) 



2. V. parvi36rum, Michx. Stem slender (2° -5° high), spnrlnfjii/ leafi/ 

 below, nahd ahore: leaves scarceli/ p'nited, glabrous, contracted into sfnathinfj jteti- 

 oies, varying from oval to lanceolate ; jjanicle very long and loose, the terminal 

 raceme wand-like, the lateral slender and spreading ; pedicels as long as the flow- 



