Tlemlph. 17. SMILACE^E. 123. Paris. 187 



Paris quadrifoUa. Four-leafed herl-Paris. 



Leaves mostly in one wliorl, ovate. 



Herba Paris, Rati Hijn. 264, 1 ; Ger. em. 405 ; Park. 390. 

 Palis quadiifolia, Lin. S, P. 527. 

 One berry hlerh Paris, True love. 



Woods and shady places ; perennial; May. 



Stem V2 in. high; leaves 3 to .5, acute, notched, smooth; 

 peduncle angular ; flowers greenish purple. — Leaves and 

 lerries narcotic; root emetic in doses of two scruples. 



II. 124. CON VALL ARIA. Lin. Lilly-of-the-valley. 

 Perigonhim campanulate, 6-toothed ; stamens Q ; anthers 

 terminal; filaments inserted at the base of the perigonium; 

 style 1; stigma blunt, 3-cornered ; ovary 3-celled, free; 

 berry globose, 3-celled; seeds 2, one above the other, affixed 

 to the inner angle of the cells, subglobose; perisperm car- 

 tilaginous, hard; corculum straight, opposite to the hilum. 

 — Rkizoma creeping ; leaves radical, curve-ribbed ; sheaths 

 scaly, cut; flowers racemose, peduncled, whitish, bracteate; 

 scape solitary ; hractece lanceolate, solitary, at the base of 

 the peduncle ; berry spotted before it is ripe. 



Convallaria majalis. May lilly-of-the-valley. 



Scape semicylindrical ; leaves ovate, lanceolate; flowers 

 racemose, spiked ; peduncle drooping. 



Lilium convallium, Rail Syn, 264, 1 ; Ger. era. 410. 

 Lilium convallium flore albo, Park. Par. 319. 

 Convallaria majalis, Lin, S. P. 451. 

 Convallaria fragrans, Saliib. Prod, 254. 

 May lilly. Lilly convally. 



Woods; perennial; May. 



Flowers white, very fragrant ; lerries red. — Flowers nar- 

 cotic, errhine; extract ot the root and flowers bitter and 

 purgative, in doses of two scruples; leaves dye a durable 

 green, 



III. 125. POLYGONATUM. Dioscor. Solomon's seal, 

 Perigonium cylindrical, tubular, 6-toothed; stamens 6, 

 inserted above the base of the perigonium ; anthers termi- 

 nal; style 1 ; stigma blunt, 3-cornered; ovary 3-celled, free; 

 berry globular, 3-celled ; seeds 1 or 2, round ; perisperm 

 cartilaginous; corculum straight, opposite to the hilum. — 

 Rhizoma creeping, fleshy ; stem simple, leafy, sheathed with 

 scales at the base ; leaves cauline, sessile, alternate of verti- 

 cillate, longitudinally streaked; ribs prominent, curved; 

 peduncles axillary, solitary, I or many-flowered; floiuers 

 drooping, whitish ; bractecc ; berry before it is ripe mottlgd. 



