HEXANDIIIA— MONOGYNIA. Couvallaria. 135 



1'. minus. Ger. Em. 903. f. 



P. alterum. Dod. Fcmpt. 345./. 



Sigillum Salomonis angustifolium. Trag. Hist. 400. f. 



In woods at the bases of the Scottish mountains, very rare. 



In Den Rechip, a deep woody valley, between the hills of Slor- 

 mont, Perthshire, about 4 miles north-east of Dunkeld. Mr. Ar- 

 thur Bruce. 



Perennial. June. 



Root fleshy, creeping. Stem erect, near 2 feet high, simple, angu- 

 lar, smooth ; naked at the lower part ; clothed above with nu- 

 merous whorls of sessile, spreading, linear-lanceolate, ribbed 

 leaves, 3 or 4 inches long, from 3 to 4 in a whorl, the upper- 

 most often as many as 5, 6, or 7 ; their under surface glaucous. 

 Flower-stalks axillary, solitary, branched, drooping, hardly an 

 inch in length, each bearing from 2 to 4 pendulous, white 

 flowers, tipped with green. Cor. cylindrical ; its segments pa- 

 rallel, near together, bearded withinside under the tips. Slam. 

 short, in the mouth of the tube. Slxjle short. Berry globose, 

 deep blue. 



3. C. Polygonatum. Angular Solomon's Seal. 



Leaves alternate, clasping the angular stem Stalks axil- 

 lary, mostly single-flowered. Stamens smooth. 



C. Polygonatum. Lmn. Sp. tl.Ab\ . Wilkl. v.2. ]6l. H.Br. 37). 



Engl. Bot. V. 4. t. 280. Hook. Lond. t. 38. JVoodv.Mcd. Boi: 



t. 44. Fl. Dan. t. 377. 

 Polygonatum. Camer. Epit. 692. f. 

 P. n. 1242". Hall. Hist. v. 2. 1 19. 

 P. floribus ex singularibus pediculis. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 529./. 



Rail Sijn. 263. 

 P. latifolium, flore majore odoro. Bauh. Pin. 303. 

 P. latifolium secundum. Clus. Hist. v. 1. 27G. Ger. Em. 904./. 

 P. latifolium. Dod. Pempt. 346. f. 



P. latifolium, flore albo majori odorato. Barrel. Ic. t.7\^.f. 1. 

 P. vulgare. Redout. Liliac. t. 258. 

 /3. P. Hellebori albi folio, caule purpurasccnte. Raii Syn. 263. 



In rocky mountainous woods, rare. 



On the' ledges of the clifts near Wherf and Settle, Yorkshire ; 

 T. Willisel. Ratj. In Kent. Mr. J. Payer. Woods near Bex- 

 ley and Dartford. Mr. Graves. On Kyloe rocks, a few miles 

 south of Berwick. Mr. A. Bruce. Never found in Norfolk. 



/3. In woods on the north side of Mendip hills, Somersetshire. 

 Bobart. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root fleshy, creeping, abounding with mucilage, which may be 

 separated, bv grating and washing, in the form of starch. Bread 



