CLASS VI. ORDER I. 141 



CONVALLARIA STELLATA. 



Stem clothed with alternate, clasping, lanceolate 

 leaves ; raceme simple, terminal, few flowered. 

 Si/n. Smilacina stellata. Pursh. 



About a foot high. Stem round, smooth, flexuous. Leaves 

 alternate, two ranked, oblong or lanceolate, clasping, smooth 

 above, glaucous or downy underneath. Raceme terminal erect, 

 simple, consisting of a few white flowers with six oblong petals 

 and six stamens. — Low grounds. South Boston. — June. 

 Convallaria racemosa. Zi. Clustered Solomon's Seal. 



Leaves alternate, nearly sessile, oval, acuminate ; 

 raceme terminal, compoimd. 



A large species, every part of it covered with fine down. Root 

 fleshy, sweet and mucilaginous. Leaves alternate, oblong, large, 

 nerved, smooth in appearance, tapering to a long point, their 

 base narrowed into a sort of petiole. The stem terminates in a 

 compound raceme of white flowers on peduncles generally of 

 the same color. Corolla rotate, of six small linear divisions. 

 Stamens longer than the petals, with conical filaments. Germ 

 round. Style straight, short. — In low ground. — June. — Peren- 

 nial. 



§^ Subgenus Poltgonatum. Flowers cylindrical. 

 Convallaria multiflora. L. 3Iany Jlowered Solomon's 



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Leaves alternate, clasping; stem round; peduncles 

 axillary, many flowered. L. 

 Syn. Poltgonatum multiflorum. Pursh. 



A smaller plant than the preceding species. Stem about two 

 feet high, smooth, round, simple, nodding at top. Leaves alter- 

 nate, oval, nerved, pale and pubescent underneath, slightly 

 clasping at base. Flower stalks axillary, drooping, branched, 

 supporting several pendulous green flowers. Corollas long, 

 funnel shaped, somewhat cylindrical, six cleft. Anthers oblong, 

 acute, filaments growing to the corolla j style as long as the 



