660 OONVALLA.KIA.CEiE cuntonia 



' SCOMOPIS 



5 CLINTONIA Raf. Journ. Phys. 102, 1819, 



Scapose herbs with slender rootstocks, few broad apparently 

 radical many-nerved leaves and white or red flowers umbellate 

 upon a scape-like peduncle. Perianth campanulate, of 6 distinct 

 several-nerved equal deciduous segments, stamens 6, inserted 

 on the base of the segments, with filiform filaments and oblong 

 to linear versatile anthers, attached on the inner side and laterally 

 dehiscent. Ovary sessile, 2-3-celled, with 2 to several ovules in 

 each cell. Style slender, deciduous, slightly 2-3-lobed at the 

 summit. Fruit a smooth few- to many-seeded berry, seeds 

 somewhat compressed or angled, with smooth crustaceous brown- 

 ish testa. ' . 



C. nniflora Kunth Enum. v, 159. More or less villous-pubeacent 

 throughout: stems 1-2 inches long, mostly under ground: leaves lanceolate 

 or oblanceolate to oblong-obovate, acute or shortly apiculate, attenuate 

 below to a sheathing petiole, 4-8 inches long by 1-2 wide: peduncle shorter 

 than the leaves, 1- rarely 2-flowered : segments of the perianth white, ob- 

 lanceolate. obtuse, 8-12 lines long % longer than the stamens : style about 

 equalling the stamens: berries blue, oblong, 4-6 lines long, the cells 6-10- 

 seeded. Common in damp forests in the mountains, California to Alaska. 



C. Andrewsiana Torr. Pac. E. Rep. iv, 150. Nearly glabrous, the 

 inflorescence more or less pubescent : stem stout, 2-6 inches long, mostly 

 under ground : leaves usually 4-6, broadly oblong to oblanceolate, shortly 

 apiculate narrowed below to short petioles or sessile, 6-12 inches long, 2-4 

 inches wide; peduncle 1-2 feet high, usually with a foliaceous bract: flow- 

 ers deep rose-color, numerous in a terminal umbel and one or more lateral 

 umbellate fascicles : pedicels slender, unequal, 4-12 lines long : perianth 

 gibbous at base, 4-7 lines long : stamens a half shorter, about equalling the 

 style: filaments pubescent: berries 4-5 lines long, the cells 8-10-seeded. 

 In Sequoia forests near the coast, southern Oregon to California. 



6 SOOLIOPIS Torr. Pac. E. Rep. iv, 145, 



Nearly acaulescent glabrous herbs with short fibrous-rooted 

 rhizomes, a pair of thin apparently radical leaves subtended by 

 scarious sheaths and few flowers on long pedipels in a nearly 

 sessile umbel. Perianth of 6 distinct deciduous segments, the 3 

 outer lanceolate, several-nerved, the 3 inner narrower and 3-nerved. 

 Stamens 3, inserted at the base of the 3 outer segments, with fili- 

 form-subulate filaments, and oblong 2-oelled extrorse anthers. 

 Ovary sessile, strongly triquetrous, 1-celled, the thickened angles 

 placentiferous, with about 10 ascending ovules in 2 rows upon 

 each placenta, style very short, persistent : stigmas linear, deep- 

 ly channeled down the inner side. Fruit a thin-walled several- 

 seeded capsule bursting irregjularly. Seeds oblong, slightly curved, 

 longitudinally sulcate-striate, with thin close light-colored testa. 



S. Hallli Watson Proc. Am. Acad, xiv, 272. Bhizome short, with 

 numerous long fleshy-fibrous roots : stem not rising above the ground : 

 leaves broably lanceolate, acute, 3-6 inches long, 1-2 inches wide, narrowed 

 below to sheathing petioles: pedicels 1-8, very slender, 2-3 inches long; 

 outer segments of the perianth lanceolate or oblanceolate, 3-4 lines long, 

 1J4 lines wide, narrowed to a claw below, yellowish green speckled with 

 red outside, striped with purple inside, bent outward near the middle, the 



