5 2 Iridaceae 



Rockies and in the Selklrks ; flowering in June. 



Plant 1-2 feet high with few 



Disporum . 



branches, hairy when young. 

 majus 



(Hook). Leaves ovate or oblong-lance- 



Britton. olate, acute or short, acuminate, 



Large rounded at the base. Flowers 



greenish-yellow or nearlv white, 

 Disporum. 



1-3 together at the ends of the 

 branches; sepals and petals not spreading, 

 half an inch or less in length, narrowly ob- 

 long or oblanceolate, stamens about equal- 

 ling the sepals and petals ; style slightly longer 

 than the stamens, 3 -cleft; berry a little less 

 than half an inch in diameter, depressed, 

 globose, and roughened with short papillas. 

 In rich woods, most abundant on the 

 eastern slopes of the Rockies ; flowering early 

 in June. 



IRIDACE^S 

 Iris Family 

 Perennial herbs with narrow 2-ranked, 



