140 CLASS VI. ORDER I. 



Streptopus roseus. Mz. Red floicering Streptopus. 



Smooth, leaves clasping, serrulate-ciliate, anthers 

 short, two horned. 



The species a good deal resembles the last, but the leaves ap- 

 pear ciliate, and when viewed with a magnifier are found to be 

 edged with short cartilaginous filaments. Flowers reddish. — In 

 Vermont and New Hampshire. — June. — Perennial. 



154. CONVALLARIA. 

 § Subgenus Smilacina. Corolla foil?- or six parted, spreading ; 

 flowers terminal. 



CoNVALLARiA BiFOLiA. L. Two Uttved Solomou' s Seal. 

 Stem two or three leaved, leaves heart shaped, 

 flowers tetandroiis. Mich. 



Syn. Smilacina Canadensis. Pursh. 



The creeping roots of this little plant cause it to spread exten- 

 sively in the moist situations where it grows. Its stem is an- 

 gular and furnished with two or three smooth, thin, delicate 

 leaves, oblong heart shaped and sessile, the lower one sometimes 

 pedunculated. Flowers white, in a short erect cluster. Corolla 

 four cleft ; stamens four. Germ round, depressed, style straight. 

 The unripe berries are while and spotted, a circumstance said to 

 be common to all the species. — Flowers in May. — Perennial. 



Convallaria trifolia. L. Three leaved Solomon^ s Seal. 

 Stem pubescent with three alternate leaves ; leaves 

 oblong lanceolate; raceme terminal, lax. 



Syn. Smilacina trifolia. Pursh. 



Stem round. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, clasping. Spike 

 terminal, erect, simple. Peduncles short with minute concave 

 bractes. Corolla rotate with six lanceolate reflexcd petals. Sta- 

 mens six, straight, spreading. Germ triangular-ovate ; style 

 straight, stigma triple. — Near the Monadnock mountain, Mr. 

 Nuttall. — Cambridge, near Fresh pond, Mr. Tuckerman. — May. 

 — Perennial, 



