Orper 149.—THE MELANTHS. : 299 
6. CLINTO'NIA. Clintonia. 
1 ©. borea/lis, Northern C. Leaves broad, oval- 
lanceolate. Flowers white, 2-5, nodding in 
the erect, bractless umbel. Common in woods. 
N. 
2 O. multiflo’ra, Many-flowered C. Leaves oblong- 
lanceolate. Flowers spotted, 12-80 in the co- 
rymb, erect or spread. Plant downy. Woods. 
M.S. 
Y. UVULARIA. Bellwort. 
Perianth 6-parted. Sepals linear-spatulate 
or lanceolate, with a honey-cavity at the 
base of each. Filaments very short, anthers 
half as long as the sepals. Style 3-cleft. 
Pod (or berry) 3-celled, cells few-seeded.— | 
Root-stock creeping. Stem leafy and usually 
branched. Flowers mostly solitary, straw- 
yellow, pendulous. May. 
1 Leaves perfoliate (§ 220). Pod obovate, 8- 
lobed at end... .3 Fig. 663. Clintonia borealis. 
Fig. 664, A berry cut across to 
show the 2 cells. 
1 Leaves sessile. Sepals cream-colored, ob- 
tusish, ovate, 38-angled....2 
2 U, sessilifo/lia, Wild Oats. Leaves glabrous, glaucous beneath. Pod raised on 
a little stalk. Stem 6-10’ high, divided. ec. 
2. puber'ula, Downy B. Leaves fine-downy, shining green both sides. Pod 
sessile. Stem 8-12’ high. Mountains. S. 
8 U. grandifio’ra. Great-flowered B. Sepals smooth within and without, 14’ 
long. Anthers obtuse. Stemlf. high. _ 
8 U. perfolia’ta. Mealy B. Sepals granular-roughish within, scarce 1’ long, 
Anthers pointed. Stem 1f. high. 
Orper CXLIX. MELANTHACE. The Melanths. 
Herbs perennial, often poisonous, with parallel-veined leaves ; 
perianth double, of six similar pieces, green or colored alike, persistent; 
stamens 6, with their anthers turned outwards (extrorse) ; 
ovary 8-celled, the styles usually distinct, a capsule in fruit, 
