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branches 1-3- (usually 2-) flowered ; leaves 2-4' long, U-2' broad, ovate, 

 acute or subacuminate, obliquely subcordate at base, more or less clasping or 

 often scarcely sessile, not punctate, glabrous or subpubescent, scarcely scabrous 

 upon the margin or somewhat ciliate ; perianth nearly white, subacute at 

 base ; sepals 3-6" long, narrowly lanceolate, acute, but shghtly glandular or 

 gibbous at base ; stamens about equaling the sepals, anthers hnear-oblong, 

 glabrous, li" long, or sometimes but i" long and upon much shorter filaments; 

 style glabrous, deeply 3-cleft or rarely nearly entire ; ovary rounded ; ovules 

 4-6 in each cell ; berry 4-6" in diameter, light-red, subglobose-triangular, 

 depressed and strongly 3-lobed, 8-12-seeded, rough-papillose. — The ovules 

 are funiculated, horizontal or subascending. Collected by Parry in Colorado, 

 (1862,) by Lyall in Washington Territory, and also by Wilkes (616, in part.) 

 Wahsatch and Uintas ; 6-9,000 feet altitude; May-August. (1,166.) 



Steeptopus amplexifolius, DC. Pennsylvania and northward to New- 

 foundland, Labrador, Hudson's Bay and the Saskatchewan ; on the western 

 coast from Sitka to Washington Territory, and in the Rocky Mountains to 

 New Mexico. Wahsatch and Uintas ; 8-9,000 feet altitude ; July. (1,167.) 



Smilacina eacemosa, Desf, Var. amplexicaulis. (8. amplexicaulis, 

 Nutt. Jour. Acad. Phil. 7. 58.) Leaves closely sessile and amplexicaul, 

 shortly acuminate or only acute ; style at least half as long as the ovary and 

 equaUng the stamens. — Distinguished at once from the usual form by its less 

 acuminate sessile leaves and longer style and filaments. It is 2012 Hartweg 

 and 353 Bridges from California, and 845 Fendler from New Mexico ; col- 

 lected also by Wyeth and Lyall in Oregon and Washington Territory and by 

 Bourgeau in the Rocky Mountains. 728 Coulter from California, Lyall's speci- 

 mens from Lower Eraser River and Bourgeau's from the Winnipeg are the 

 typical form, which extends southward to Southern California, New Mexico, 

 and the upper districts of the Gulf States. Clover Mountains, Nevada, and 

 the Wahsatch ; 6-7,000 feet altitude ; May-September. (1,168.) 



Smilacina stellata, Desf Northern States, Labrador, Canada, and 

 west to the Saskatchewan and Washington Territory ; south to California 



stamens ; style entire ; fruit 3-4" in diameter, globose-triangular, witli a very sliort obtuse beat, glab- 

 rous, the cells 2-soeded. 



P. iraohyandra, Torr., collected only in flower, has the anthers slightly pubescent, the style 

 entire, and ovary smooth. Fruiting specimens from Mendocino County, California, (Kellogg,) are prob- 

 ably the same ; stem pubescent ; leaves sessile, slightly cordate, long-acuminate, dark-green and shining, 

 margins snjooth ; fruit smooth, 4-8" long, ovate, short-attenuate at each end and somewhat beaked 

 above ; cells 3-4-seeded. — There are other undescribed Californian species. 



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