NOTES ON OUR I.OCAL PLANTS III 



Polygonatum commutatum (R. and S.) Dietr. Gartenz. 3, p. 

 223, (1835.) 



Polygonatum giganteum Dietr. 1. c. p. 328. Convallaria coni- 

 mutata R. and S. Syst. 7, p. 1671, (1830) Salomonia commutata 

 (R. and S.) Britton 1. c. No. 11212 Notre Dame, also 11213. 



Lake Maxinkuckee (Clarke). I have found this plant also 

 throughout the range. 



Subfamily Convallarieae Dum. Am. Fam. 



CONVALLARIA Linn. Syst. (1735); Hort. CliiT. p. 124, 

 (1737); Gen. PI. p. 96, (1737); p. 146, (1742); p. 148, (1754); 

 Sp. PI. p. 314, (1753)- 



Callionymus^ Gesner. Hort. Germ. (1561) Liliago Vaillant. Fl. 

 Par. p. 70, (1723); p. 116, (1727) not Liliago Caesalpinus (1583) = 

 Anthericum Sp. nor Liliago Cordus (1561) — Phalangium sp. 

 Liliuni Convallium Tour. Els. Bot. p. 68, (1694), I. R. H. p. 77, 

 (7100); Moench. Meth. p. 636, (1794); Morandi, Hist. p. 105, 

 (1761) ; Convallium Ludwig, De Min. Pi. Gen. p. 7, (1737) ; Kramer, 

 Tent. Bot. p. 3, (1744); M aianthemum Ludwig De Min. Pi. et. (1737) 



Convallaria majalis Linn. Sp. PI. 1. c. 



Convallaria Lilium Convallium Linn. Pan Suecus. in Am. 

 Acad. n. p. 245, (1748). Liliuni Convallium majalis Moench. 1. c. 

 Lilium Convallium albtini Morandi 1. c. 



The reason for referring to this usually only cultivated plant 

 is that a sheet, in U. N. D. Herb. No. 2978 collected by Powers 

 at Notre Dame, notes it as "escaped from cultivation, old Botanical 

 Garden" in 1880. I have not found it in wild state. 



Family ^t,. TRILLIACEAE De Candolle Ess. Med. 

 p. 294, (1816). 



Parideae Dum. Fl. Belg. St. p. i3q, (1827), also Kunth, (1851); 

 Link. Handb. i, p. 297, (1829); Bartl. Ord. p. 53, (1830) [Div. 

 of Smilaceae]: Melanojae Dum. Com. Bot. p. 65, (1823). 



MEDEOLA Linn. Syst. (1735); Gen. PI. p. 107, (1737); p. 



"* Beside the fact that Callionymus is used and accepted for the name 

 of an animal, Gesner uses it moreover only as a synonym for the appella- 

 tion Liliuni Convallium as used for this plant. Both Convallium and 

 Maianthenium are antedated by Convallaria. We see, therefore, no reason 

 to accept Callionymus. 



