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long, j as wide, acuminate, smooth. Flowers 4 8, white, 6-parted, the 

 segments spreading. May. 



3. C. STELLATA. (Smilacina. Desf.) Star-flowered Solomon's Seal. 



St. erect ; Ivs. numerous, 3- veined, lanceolate, amplexicaul, acute ; fls. 

 few, in a simple, terminal raceme. 1\. Along rivers, Can. and Northern States, 

 W. to the Miss. Stem 10 20' high, round and smooth. Leaves 8 10, smooth, 

 glaucous beneath, 46' by 9 12", tapering to the apex. Flowers white, about 

 8, stellate, rather larger than in the next. May, Jn. 



4. C. RACEMOSA. (Smilacina. Desf.} Clustered Solomon's Seal. 



St. recurved ; Ivs. oval, acuminate, subsessile ; roc. compound. Tj. A lar- 

 ger species than the preceding. Rhizoma thick, sweet to the taste. Stem 

 1 2f high, downy, gracefully recurved at top. Leaves 4 6' long, about | as 

 wide, contracted into a long acumination, veined, minutely pubescent. Peti- 

 oles 2" long. Flowers very numerous, small, white, on white pedicels, and 

 with white, exserted, tapering filaments, constituting a large, compound, ter- 

 minal raceme. 



3 CLINTONIA. Perianth subcampanulate, ^-parted. Berry Z-celled. 



5. C. BOREALIS. (C. umbellulata. Michx. Dracaena. Ait. Clintonia. 



Raj'.} Wild Lily of the Valley. Scape umbellate ; Ivs. broad-oval-lance- 

 olate ; fls. cernuous ; berries blue. 7|_ Mountainous or hilly woods, Can., N. 

 Eng. to Car., W. to the Miss. Rhizoma creeping to some extent. Leaves 

 4 7' long, as wide, petiolate, radical or nearly so, smooth and glossy, fringed 

 with scattered hairs. Scape erect, round, 8 13' high, bearing at top a beauti- 

 ful umbel of 3 6 yellowish-green, nodding flowers. Perianth liliaceous, of 6 

 oblanceolate, erect-spreading segments. Berries of a rich amethystine blue. Jn. 



6. C. MAJALIS. Lily of the Valley. Scape naked, smooth, semi-cylindric ; 

 ITS. nearly radical, ovate ;' roc. simple, 1-sided. %. An elegant, sweet-scented 

 plant, native of woods at the South, and is, or deserves to be, a frequent inhabi- 

 tant of our gardens. Leaves 2, seldom 3, ovate-elliptical. Scape 6' high, with 

 white flowers depending from its upper half in a single rank. May. 



13. POLYGONATUM. 



Gr. iro\vs, many, yow, knee ; from the many-jointed rhizoma. 



Perianth tubular, cylindrical, 6-cleft ; stamens inserted near the 

 summit of the tube ; berry globose, 3-celled, cells 2-seeded. St. 

 simple. Lvs. alternate. Fls. axillary. 



P. MULTIFLORUM. Desf. (P. latifoliuni, angustifolium, biflorum, pubes- 

 cens and canaliculatum, of PA., &c.) St. recurved, smooth; Ivs. distich- 

 ous, lanceolate, amplexicaul, smooth above; peduncles axillary, 1 4-flowered. 

 QJ_ in woods, free States and Can. Stem 1 3f high, most recurved in the 

 tallest plants. Leaves more or less clasping at base, or only sessile in the 

 smallest plants, 2| 6' by 1 2j x , veined, smooth and glossy above, paler and 

 generally pubescent beneath. Peduncles filiform, branching, scarcely a fifth as 

 long as the leaves. Flowers 5 8" long, pendulous, greenish, sub-cylindric. 

 Berries dark blue or blackish when ripe. Jn. 



a. Lvs. very amplexicaul, smooth both sides, distinctly veined ; lower pedun- 

 cles 4-flowered. Plant 2 3f high. In rich, damp soils. 



/?. pubescens. Lvs. pubescent beneath, slightly clasping ; st. 1 2f high. 

 This variety is most common in New England. 



y. biflora. Lvs. smooth both sides, i as wide as long, sessile ; fls. greenish- 

 white, 4 5" long ; st. round, 1 IJf high. 



6. canaliculata. St. channeled on the upper side. 



t. latifolia. Lvs. ovate, acuminate, sessile, glabrous. Stem angled, 4 5f 

 high Middle States. 



14. UVULARIA. 



Perianth deeply 6-parted ; segments linear-oblong, acute, erect, 

 with a nectariferous cavity at the base of each ; filaments very short ; 



