442 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region and Lower hills. Rich shaded hillsides, borders of 

 woods. Lee County, Auburn (Baker $ Earle). Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). 

 Cullraan County. April, May. Flowers greenish. 



Type locality : South Carolina. 



Herb.Geol Surv. Herb*. Mohr. 



Polygonatum commutatum (Roem. & Schult.) Dietr. ; Otto & Dietr. Gartenz. 

 3 : 223. 1835. LARGE SOLOMON'S SEAL. 



Convallaria commutata Roem. & Schultz. Syst. Veg. 7: 1671. 1830. 



Polygonatum giyanteum Dietr. ; Otto & Dietr. Gartenz. 1835 : 222. 1835. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 525. Chap. Fl. Sappl. 656 ; ed. 3, 507. 



Canadian zone to Carolinian area. Western Ontario to Saskatchewan; New 

 England west to Minnesota, south to the Ohio Valley, Missouri, and Tennessee, and 

 along the mountains to Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Shaded hillsides. Dekalb County, near summit of 

 Lookout Mountain, 1,800 feet. Flowers greenish. May ; rare. 



Economic uses : The rhizomas of both species, as "Solomon's seal," are used medic- 

 inally, mostly in domestic practice. 



Type locality : "Ad specimen in Herb, cli Martins a D. Schweinitz in Pennsyl- 

 vania lectum." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 







MEDEOL A L. Sp. PI. 1 : 339. 1753. 



One species, perennial; Atlantic North America. 

 Medeola virginiana L. Sp. PI. 1 : 339. 1753. INDIAN CUCUMBER. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 425. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 530. Chap. Fl. 479. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New Brunswick, Ontario, New England, to 

 middle Florida and eastern Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to the Lower Pine belt. Shady woods. Franklin 

 and Cullman counties. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). Hale and Gallion counties. 

 Escambia County, Flomaton. May ; not infrequent. Perennial. 



Type locality : "Hah. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



TRILLIUM L. Sp. PL 1 : 339. 1753. 



Fourteen or 15 species, perennials, temperate North America. One to Japan and 

 Himalayas. 



Trillium sessile L. Sp. PI. 1 : 340. 1753. WAKE-ROHIX. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 426. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 530. Chap. Fl. 477. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Pennsylvania, west to Minnesota; Ohio Valley 

 to Missouri ; south from New Jersey to Georgia, along the mountains. 



ALABAMA: Lower hills. Shady woods. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). Flowers 

 maroon purple. March ; not frequent. 

 Type locality: "Hab. in Virginia, Carolina." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Trillium underwoodii Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 24 : 174. 1897. 



UNDERWOOD'S WAKE-ROBIN. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Tennessee, South Carolina, middle Florida. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region, Lower Pine region. Rich woods. Mobile County, 

 Chastangs Bluff. Lee County, Auburn (Underwood <f Earle). Flowers greenish. 

 March; infrequent. 



Type locality: "In woods and fields, North Carolina to Tennessee, south to Flor- 

 ida and Alabama." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Trillium viride Beck, Am. Journ. Sci. 11 : 178. 1826. 



Trillium viridescens Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ser. 2, 5 : 155. 1837. 



T. sessile var. nuttallii Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14 : 273. 1879. 



Stem rough-pubescent, at least at the top; leaves oblong-ovate or broadly ovate, 

 acutish or somewhat obtuse, blotched, short-attenuate at the base; sepals lanceolate 

 or linear-lanceolate; petals clawed, linear, acute, longer than the sepals, greenish 

 purple ; stamens one-third the length of the petals ; filaments shorter than the anthers. 



Carolinian area. Tennessee, Missouri, and Arkansas. 



