2Q2 LILIACEvE. Maiantlianum. 



line or two long : segments of tlie perianth 2 or 3 lines long. — Tovaria sldlata, 

 Neckor; ]>iiker, 1. c. CHt^h 



III the llocky iMi)uiiliiiiis from Hiilisli Ainorica to Now Ltexico iiiul castwaid to lliu Atliintu' ; 

 nlso ui>])arciitly u\\ llio I'lislciii side ol' tliu Siuini Nuvmlii I'idiu Klunialli ViiUuy (Crunkhiti) to 

 Carson City, Anderson, Lluumcr. 



15. MAIANTHEMUM, Weber. Dwauk Solo.mon's Seal. 

 ■ Perianth-segments and stamens 4. Filaments filiform. Ovary 2- (or rarely 3-) 

 celled and stigma 2-lobed. Dwarf, with 2 (rarely 3) ovate- to lanceolate-cordate 

 mostly petioled cauline leaves, and often a single long-petioled leaf from the root. 

 Otherwise as Smilacina. Flowers in a usually simple raceme ; pedicels solitary or 2 

 or 3 together. 



Only two species, one of wliidi is peculiar to tlie Atlantic States. 



1. M. bifolium, DC, var. (1) dilatatum, Wood. Glabrous : stem often stout, 

 3 inches to a iuut high, from a slender running rootstocU, Hexuous above : leaves 

 (2 or 3) ovate- or subreniform-cordate, with a deep sinus and rounded auricles, 

 acute or acuminate, 2 to 4 inches long, on petioles i to 2| inches long, the upper 

 petiole much the shorter; the third leaf, when present, sessile, narrower, usually 

 cuneate at base: raceme pedunculate, i to 2 inches long, simple or somewhat jianicu- 

 lato at base ; pedicels a lino or two long : perianth white, the segments oblong- 

 obovate, 1 to 1.', lines long, becoming dellexed : stamens a third or a half shorter: 

 style stout, shorter than the ovate ovary : berry red, globose, 1 - •4-seeded, about 3 

 lines in diameter: seed ovate, brown, over H lines long. — Proc. Philad. Acad. 

 18G8, 174. Convalloria bi/ulia, var. Kamtschutica, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnaa, 

 vi. 587. 



Frequent in the Coast Ranges, in swampy places, from JIarin County nortliward to Alaska ; 

 also in eastern Sibeiia and Japan. The onlinary Eumiiean and Asiatic form dilfers in its lower 

 and more slender luiljit, narrower and more attenuate leaves, which witli the petioles are nioie or 

 less pubescent, and a more slender style ; the tlowers, fruit, and seeds are also somewhat smaller. 



16. NOLINA, Michx. 

 Flowers polygamo-dioecious, small. Perianth persistent, of 6 distinct whitish 

 oblongdanceolate 1-nerved segments. Stamens 6, included, near the base of the 

 segments, mostly abortive or wanting in the fertile llowers ; iilaments very short, 

 liliform ; anthers cordate-ovate, versatile, introrse. Ovary sessile, deeply 3-lobed, 

 rudimentary in the sterile llowers ; ovules 2 at the base of each cell ; styles veiy 

 short, distinct and recurved or slightly coherent, stigmatic on the inner side. Cap- 

 sule mostly membranaceous and somewhat inflated, subglobose, lobed nearly to the 

 middle, loculicidal or the thin Avails usually bursting irregularly and often before 

 the maturity of the seed. Seeds solitary, globose to ovate-oblong, with a close thin 

 light-colored slightly wrinkled or reticulated testa. — Perennials, with a thick woody 

 caudex or truidc (often elongated with a much dilated base), numerous narrowly 

 linear and mostly rigid serriilately margined leaves, and a stout nearly naked llow- 

 ering stem bearing a compound racemose many-ilowered panicle, the main branches 

 subtended by foliaceous long-attenuate bracts; pedicels solitary, short, jointed 

 usually near the base, subtended by minute scarious bracts. — Watson, Proc. Amer. 

 Acad. xiv. 24G. Beaucaruea, Lemaire ; l>aker, Trim. Journ. Bot. x. 323, 



A genus of about a dozen species, of Mexico and the southern borders of the United States, 

 many of them only imperfectly known. 



