BED OR REDDISH PURPLE 13 



Both in flower and fruit this phxnt lends its 

 attractiveness to the woodside road. The stem 

 is zigzag and somewhat inclined. The rootstock 

 is stout. It extends south to Georgia and west 

 to Missouri and Arizona. 



THREE-LEAVED SOLOMON'S SEAL 



Vagnera trifolia. Smilacina trifolia 

 Lily-of-the -Valley Family 



Fruit. — The globular berries grow in a few- 

 fruited raceme. They are red when ripe. 



Leaves. — The leaves are usually three in 

 number, although two or four occasionally 

 occur. They are oblong, and taper to a nar- 

 rowed sheathing base. They are acute at the 

 apex. 



Floicei's. — The white, six-parted flowers are 

 smaller than in V. stellata. 



This is a smaller plant than False Spikenard 

 or Star-flowered Solomon's Seal. A casual ob- 

 server might confuse it with Unifolkmi Cana- 

 dense, but it may be distinguished from it by 

 the narrowed sheathing base of its leaf and its 

 six-parted flowers. It grows in bogs and wet 



