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SPECIES I.-SMILACINA BIPOLIA. Besf. 



Plate MDX. 



Beicli. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. V&l. X. Tab. CCCCXXXVL 



BlUot, Fl. Gall, et Genn. Exsicc. No. 79. 



Convallaria bifolia, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 452. 



Maiantliemum bifolium, B.C. Kimtli, Eimin. PI. Vol. V. p. 147. Bab. Man. Brit. 



Bot. ed. vi. p. 340. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 450. Fries, Sunun. Yeg. 



Scand. p. 64. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 814. Gren. & Godr. Fl. de 



Fr. Vol. m. p. 230 ; et Auct. Plur. 



Rootstock slender, branched, the branches producing a single stalked 

 roundish-ovate deeply cordate leaf, or a flowering stem with two 

 shortly stalked or subsessile ovate-cordate leaves, one of which is a 

 little above the other. Flowers in a simple raceme ; pedicels mostly 

 in pairs. Perianth segments oblong, spreading-recurved. Stamens 4. 

 Berries very small, white dotted with red. 



In woods and bushy places. Very rare. On the west side of Forge 

 Valley, near Hackness, six miles from Scarborough, Yorkshire ; 

 formerly at Hawick, Northumberland. Reported by Gerarde from 

 Dingley Wood, near Preston ; and Harewood, near Blackburn, Lan- 

 cashire. There is a large patch of it in Caen Wood, between Hamp- 

 stead and Highgate, but there it has the appearance of having been 

 planted. In the Phytologist, ser. i. vol. i. p. 579, Mr. Edward Edwards 

 states that he observed it mider fir-trees in Apsley Wood, Bedford- 

 shire. 



England. Perennial. Early Summer. 



Rootstock extensively creeping, white, not so thick as a crow-quill. 

 Radical leaves on stalks 2 to 4 inches long, the stalks sheathed at 

 the base; lamina, including the lobes, IJ to 3 inches long, with nu- 

 merous ribs connected by transverse veins, deep green above, paler 

 beneath, glabrous except on the veins, which are clothed with minute 

 hairs. Stem 3 to 8 inches high, with two alternate leaves a little 

 above the middle, the upper leaf smaller than the lower, and some- 

 times there is a third still smaller leaf above the second one ; these 

 leaves are stalked, the lower ones with a petiole i to ^ inch long, the 

 upper one Avith a shorter petiole or sometimes almost sessile ; in 

 shape the stem leaves are more triangular than the radical leaves, 

 being broadest at the base and not about the middle ; all the leaves 

 are deeply cordate with roundish basal lobes widely apart at their 

 origin. Raceme f to H inch long. Bracts very small, scarious. 

 Pedicels longer than the flowers, commonly in pairs, but sometimes 

 three together, rarely solitary. Perianth segments i inch long, white. 

 Anthers white. Berry smaller than a sweet-pea seed, acuminated at 

 the apex, waxy-white dotted with brownish rod. 



