LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY FAMILY 

 2. Streptopus roseus Michx. Ses- 

 sile-leaved T\visted-stalk. 

 (Fig. 1038.) 



Streptopus roseus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 201 

 1803. 



Plant i-2% high, from a short stout 

 rootstock covered with fibrous roots. 

 Branches sparingly pubescent; leaves 2'- 

 long, acuminate at the apex, sessile, 

 rounded, or slightly clasping at the base, 

 green on both sides, their margins finely 

 ciliate; peduncles %'-i' long, usually pu- 

 bescent, i-flowered, rarely 2-flowered; 

 flowers purple or rose, 4 // -6 // long; peri- 

 anth-segments lanceolate, acuminate; an- 

 thers 2-horned; style 3-cleft, the spreading 

 branches stigmatic along the inner side; 

 berry globose or oval, 5 // -6 // in diameter. 



In moist woods, Labrador to Alaska, Geor- 

 gia, Michigan and Oregon. Ascends to 5600 ft. 

 in Virginia. May-July. 



7. POLYGONATUM Adans. Fam. PI. a: 54. 1763. 



Glabrous or pubescent herbs, with thick, horizontal jointed and scarred rootstocks, 

 simple arching or erect stems, scaly below, leafy above, the leaves ovate or lanceolate, ses- 

 sile and alternate in our species (opposite or verticillatc in some exotic ones). Flowers 

 greenish or pinkish, axillary, drooping, peduncled, solitary or 2-10 in an umbel, the pedi- 

 cels jointed at the base of the flower. Perianth tubular or oblong-cylindric or somewhat 

 expanded above the base, 6-lobed, the short lobes not spreading. Stamens 6, included; 

 filaments adnate to the perianth for half their length or more; anthers sagittate, introrse. 

 Ovary 3-celled; ovules 2-6 in each cavity; style slender; stigma small, capitate or slightly 

 3-lobed. Berry globular, pulpy, dark blue or nearly black, with a bloom, in our specie*. 

 [Greek, in allusion to the jointed rootstocks]. 



About 20 species, natives of the north temperate zone. 



Leaves pubescent beneath; filaments filiform, roughened. 



Plant glabrous throughout; filaments smooth, somewhat flattened. 



i. Polygonatum biflorum (Walt.) Ell. Hairy Solomon's Seal. (Fig. 1039.) 



Con valla Ha bi flora Walt PL Car. i . !?. 

 Polygonatum biflorum Rll. Bat S. C- & Ga. 



Stem slender, glabrous, often 

 above, 8'-j high. Le 



oval or ovate, a'-4' long, tf'-*' wide. 

 acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowed 

 or sometimes obtuse at the base, pubes- 

 cent especially on the vein* and pale be- 

 neath, glabrous above, the upper com- 

 monly narrower than the lower; peduncles 

 i-4-tlowered (often a-flowered). glabrous; 

 perianth 4"-" long, about i 

 filaments filiform, adnate to the perianth 

 for about three-fourths its length, papil- 

 lose-roughened; berry j"-4" in diameter. 



In woods and thicket*. New Broowrick to 

 Ontario ami Michigan, SOOU t-. Florida and 



Virginia April July. 





