Convallariaceae 



49 



inch long, spreading and turned back at the 

 tips ; berry J-f of an inch in diameter, globose, 

 yellow or bright scarlet, 



A rather striking plant throughout the 

 region in the moist rich woods among rocks ; 

 flowering in June. 



Streptopus 

 curvipes 



A. M. Vail. 

 Smaller 

 Twisted- 

 stalk. 



Plant 6-24 inches high, smooth 

 except the flower-stalks and 

 margins of the leaves, simple or 

 slightly branched from a slender 

 creeping rhizome, with a few 

 fibrous rootlets at the nodes. 

 Leaves yellowish-green, sessile, oval or ob- 

 long-lanceolate, 1-3 inches long, acuminate 

 at the tip and rounded or more or less clasp- 

 ing at the base, the margins more or less 

 scatteringly glandular-hairy. Flowers few at 

 the backs of the upper leaves, solitary on 

 glandular-hairy, curved stalks J-f of an 

 inch long; sepals and petals pale purple or 

 rose colour, darker spotted on the inner sur- 

 face, slender, slightly more than J of an 

 inch long; anthers beaked, the beaks slender; 



