180 EXGLISn BOTANY. 



roots of the 1-flowered plant from Settle; but these have not yet 

 flowered with me, so I cannot say whether they will remain distinct 

 in the garden, though I have some suspicion that var. ^ is merely a 

 luxuriant state of the plant. 



My dried specimens of the Leigh Wood form are intermediate ; 

 they have mostly 1-flowered peduncles, but in other respects closely 

 resemble var. 3. The station is, I believe, now destroyed, and 1 have 

 been unable to procure living plants from it. 



Angular-stemmed Solomon's Seal. 



French, Magnet de serpent. German, Salomonssiejel. 



GENUS IV.— C ONVALLARIA. " Linn." Auct. 



Flowers perfect. Perianth cupshaped-bellshaped, coloured, deci- 

 duous; limb with six large recurved teeth at the apex. Stamens 6, 

 inserted near the base of the perianth tube, included ; anthers rather 

 long. Ovary free, sessile, 3-celled; ovules 2 to 6 in each cell; 

 style thick; stigma bluntly 3-lobed. Berry globose, 2- to 6-seeded. 

 Seeds subglobose, angulated ; testa thin, fuscous. 



An herb with creeping slender rhizomes and no stem, but with 2 

 (rarely 3) radical leaves, -with the petioles enclosed in a membranous 

 sheath. Flowers rather large, pendulous, wliite, in a raceme at the 

 extremity of a naked scape. 



The name of this genus is derived from the Latin word convallis, a valley, bccauso 

 it is found abundantly in valleys. 



SPECIES I.— CON VALLA RI A MAIALIS. Linn. 



Plate MDXTV. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCXXXTI. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 290. 



The only known species. 



In woods. Rather local, but widely distributed throughout 

 England. Rare in Scotland, and doubtfully native ; but the Rev. G. 

 Gordon and Mr. W. A. Stables " deem it clearly indigenous in 

 Moray" (Cyb. Brit. vol. ii. p. 467). NaturaUsed in several places 

 in Ireland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Early Summer. 



Rootstock slender, extensively creeping, the extremity of the 

 branches sending up in spring a pair of radical leaves on long stalks, 

 accompanied or not by a flowering scape, the whole enclosed in several 



