4492 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region and Lower hills. Rich shaded hillsides, borders of 
woods. Lee County, Auburn (Baker § Earle). Tuscaloosa County (2. A. Smith). 
Cullman County. April, May. Flowers greenish. 
Type locality: South Carolina. 
Herb. Geol Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Polygonatum commutatum (Roem. & Schult.) Dietr.; Otto & Dietr. Gartenz. 
3: 223. 1835. LaRGE SOLOMON’s SEAL. 
Convallaria commutata Roem. & Schultz. Syst. Veg. 7: 1671. 1830. 
Polygonatum giganteum Dietr.; Otto & Dietr. Gartenz. 1835: 222. 1835. 
Gray, Man. ed. 6,525. Chap. Fl. Suppl. 656; ed. 3, 507. 
Canadian zone to Carolinian area. Western Ontario to Saskatchewan; New 
England west to Minnesota, south to the Ohio Valley, Missouri, and Tennessee, and 
along the mountains to Georgia. = 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Shaded hillsides. Dekalb County, near summit of 
Lookout Mountain, 1,800 feet. Flowers greenish. May; rare. 
Economic uses: The rhizomas of both species, as ‘‘Solomon’s seal,” are used medic- 
inally, mostly in domestic practice. 
Type locality: ‘‘Ad specimen in Herb. cli Martius « D°. Schweinitz in Pennsyl- 
vania lectum.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
MEDEOLA L. Sp. Pl. 1:339. 1753. 
One species, perennial; Atlantic North America. 
Medeola virginiana L. Sp. Pl. 1: 339. 1753. INDIAN CUCUMBER. 
Ell. Sk.1:425. Gray, Man. ed.6,530. Chap. Fl. 479. 
Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New Brunswick, Ontario, New England, to 
middle Florida and eastern Louisiana. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to the Lower Pine belt. Shady woods. Franklin 
and Cullman counties. Tuscaloosa County (H. A. Smith). Hale and Gallion counties. 
Escambia County, Flomaton. May; not infrequent. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Hab. in Virginia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
TRILLIUM L. Sp. Pl. 1: 339. 1753. 
Fourteen or 15 species, perennials, temperate North America. One to Japan and 
Himalayas. 
Trillium sessile L. Sp. P].1:340. 1753. WAKE-ROBIN. 
Ell. 8k.1:426. Gray, Man. ed. 6,530. Chap. I'l. 477. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Pennsylvania, west to Minnesota; Ohio Valley 
to Missouri; south from New Jersey to Georgia, along the mountains. 
ALABAMA: Lower hills. Shady woods. Tuscaloosa County (EZ. 4. Smith). Flowers 
maroon purple. March; not frequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Virginia, Carolina.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Trillium underwoodii Small, Bull. Torr. Club, 24: 174. 1897. 
UNDERWOOD’sS WAKE-ROBIN. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Tennessee, South Carolina, middle Florida. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region, Lower Pine region. Rich woods. Mobile County, 
Chastangs Bluff. Lee County, Auburn (Underwood §: Earle). Flowers greenish. 
March; infrequent. 
Type locality: ‘In woods and fields, North Carolina to Tennessee, south to Flor- 
ida and Alabama.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Trillium viride Beck, Am. Journ. Sci. 11:178. 1826, 
Trillium viridescens Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ser. 2, 5:155, 1837. 
T. sessile var. nutiallit Wats. Prov. Am. Acad. 14:273. 1879. 
Stem rough-pubescent, at least at the top; leaves oblong-ovate or broadly ovate, 
acutish or somewhat obtuse, blotched, short-attenuate at the base; sepals lanceolate 
or linear-lanceolate; petals clawed, linear, acute, longer than the sepals, greenish 
purple; stamens one-third the length of the petals; filaments shorter than the anthers. 
Carolinian area. Tennessee, Missouri, and Arkansas. 
