278 LILIACE.E. Sti-cptopus. 



deeply cordate and claspiucf, 2 to 5 inches Ion-,', very rarely slightly scabrous on the 

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

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

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

 lilament deltoid : style elongated ; stigma slightly ^Mobed : berry globose to oblong- 

 ovate, 4 to G lines long, the cells 10- 14-seeded. — aS". di^iortiiti, Michx. ; Hook. Fl. 

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



Common in the temperate ref!;ion.s of Europe, Asia niid N. Aiiu'iii'a ; in tlie United States 

 ranging soutli in tlie mountains to Pennsylvania, New Mexico ami Utah, Oregon, and more rarely 

 Northern Calilornia. Collected only liy Uolundcr, in a deep gulch near Noyo, Mendoeino 

 County ; June. 



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

 what puhescent ; leaves scabrons-ciliate, less cordate or only clasiiing ; jiedicelsi rather sliorter ; 

 flowers rose-purple, 3 or 4 lines long ; aiither-rells each aiiiculate ; stigma 3-eleft : fruit globose, 

 the cells 6 - 8-seeded. From Silica to Oregon, and perhaps Korthern California ; also in IJriti.sh 

 America and the noithern Atlantic States. 



S. nuKVli'KS, baker, .lourn. Linn. Soc. ,\iv. 592, is known only from small fruiting spceinu'us 

 collected l)y Dr. Li/a/l in the Cascade Mountains of ^Va^^lnngton Territory. It is glabrous 

 throughout, witli very slender rootstoeks ; leaves sessile, not at all cordate at base nor ciliate ; 

 fruit globose, on pedicels 3 or i lines long, tlie cells 'i-8-sceded. It is perhaps only u reduced 

 smooth foini of the lust. 



23. PROSARTES, D. Don. 



Perianth narrowly campamdate, of G distinct oblanceolate deciduous 3-5-nerved 

 and net-veined white or greenish segments. Stamens 0, 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 ovides in each cell : style slender, entire, or with 3 short spreading stig- 

 mas, deciduous. Fruit a reil 3 - G-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 otlier species are found in the Atlantic States. 



* Perianth broad and (jlbhonsli/ tmncate at base: stamens included, with elon- 

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

 cordate. 



1. P. Menziesii, Don. ]\lore or loss woolly-pubescent : stems 1 to 3 feet high : 

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

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

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

 flowers 1 to 5 : perianth-segments nearly erect, acute, G to 11 lines long : .'^tamens a 

 third shorter: style ustially more or less woolly above and slightly 3-clel't at the 

 summit : ovary nCarly smooth : capside oblong-obovate, attemiate above into a short 

 usually .somewhat vilhrns beak, triangular, 3 -G-seeded, about G lines long, bright 

 salmon-color. — Linn. Trans, xviii. 533. Uvidaria Smithii, Hook. Fl. 15or.-Am. ii. 

 174, t. ISl). 



In the Coast Ranges from l^lendocino County to Biitish C.dumbia ; in moist jdaces. May and 

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

 following. 



* * Perianth narrower and less gibbous at base : sti/le entire: leaves acute or 



shortlg acuminate, viostUj cordate and clasjjing. 



