154 HEXANDRIA-MONOGYNIA. Convallaiia. 



1 . C. majalis. Lily of the Valley. 



Flowei'-stalk radical, naked, semicylindrical. Cluster simple. 

 Flowers drooping, cup-shaped, with rather distant seg- 

 ments. 



C. majalis. Linn. Sp. PL 45 1 . fVilld. f. 2. 1 60. Fl. Br. 370. Engl. 



Bot. V. 15. t. 1035. Curt. Lond. fasc. 5. t. 24. Jbbot 76. t.2. 

 " Hook. Scot. 103. FL Dan. L 854. Redout. Liliac. L 227. BulL 



Fr. i. 219. 

 Polygonatum n . 1 24 1 . HalL Hist d. 2. 11 S. 

 Lilium convallium. Rail Syn. 264. Ger.Em,4\0.f. Matth.Valgr. 



V. 2. 227. f. Camer. EpiL 618. /. Brunf. Herb. v. 1. 211. /. 



Trag. Hist. 572./. 

 Lamium tertium. Clus. Pan. 596./. only. 

 Ephemerum non letale. Fuchs. Hist. 239. t. 240. 



In groves, heathy ground, or rocky woods. 



Perennial. Biay. 



Roots thread-shaped, creeping, much entangled. Leaves two, radi- 

 cal, elliptical, 3 or 4 inches long, acute, entire, many-ribbed, 

 smooth, stalked. Footstalks longer than the leaves, erect, chan- 

 nelled, folded, clasping each other, sheathed at the base with 

 several purplisii scales. Flower-stalk solitary, simple, radical, on 

 the outside of the footstalks within the uppermost sheath, smooth, 

 naked, semicylindrical, bearing a simple, curved cluster, of seve- 

 ral pendulous, very elegant and very sweet-scented, white 

 ^/lowers. Bracteas lanceolate, solitary at tlie base of each partial 

 stalk. Tube of the corolla nearly hemispherical; limb in 6 deep, 

 broad, recurved lobes, with wide rounded interstices. Berry as 

 large as a black currant, scarlet. 



There are varieties with double, or with purple, flowers, sometimes 

 seen in gardens, but not easy of cultivation, and far less elegant 

 than the wild kind, which is among the most favourite of our 

 native flowers. 



2. C. vert'icillata. Narrow-leaved Solomon's Seal. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, whorled. 



C. verticillata. Linn. Sp. PL 451 . Wdld. u. 2. 1 61 . Fl. Br.37\. 



EngL Bot. V. 2. t. 128. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 2. 357. Hook. Scot. 



103. Dicks. H Sice. fasc. 18. 6. FL Dan. t. 86. Wahlenb. 



Lapp. 77. 

 Polygonatum n. 1244. Hall HisL v. 2. 120. 

 P. verticillatum. Redout. Liliac. t.244. 

 P. angustifolium, non ramosurri. Bauh. Pin. 303. 

 P. angustifolium. Fuclis. Hist. 586. f Ic.337.f. Dalerh. Hist. 



1623./. 

 P.. quintum, sive angustifolium primum. Clus. Hist. i\ 1. 277. f. 

 P. tenuifolium. Cord. Hist. 113./. 



