LiLiACE^. (lily familt.) 525 



2. Z. glatlCUS, Nutt. Stem l°-3° high from a coated bulb; leaves flai; 

 panicle rather simple and few-flowered ; base of the perianth coherent with the base 

 of the ovary, the thin ovate or obovate sepals marked with a large obcordate 

 gland. (Anticlfea glauca, Kunth.) — Along the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes 

 (Bergen Swamp, Gennesee Co., New York, O. T. Fish) to N. Illinois : rare. 



» * Glands of the perianth obscure. (Here also Amianthium Nuttallii, Gray.) 



3. Z. leimantholdes. Stem l°-4° high from a somewhat bulbous base, 

 slender ; leaves narrowly linear ; flowers small (4" in diameter) and numerous, 

 in a few crowded panicled racemes ; only a yellowish spot on the contracted base 

 of the divisions of the free perianth. (Amianthium leimauthoides. Gray.) — 

 Low grounds, pine barrens of New Jersey {Durand, Knieskem) and southward. 



5. STENANTHIUM, Gray (under Veratmm). 



Flowers polygamous. Perianth spreading; the sepals narrowly lanceolate, 

 tapering to a point from the broader base, where they are united and coherent 

 with the base of the ovary, not gland-bearing, persistent, much longer than the 

 short stamens. Anthers, pods, &c. nearly as in Nos. 4 and 6. Seeds nearly 

 wingless. — Smooth, with a wand-like leafy stem from a somewhat bulbous base, 

 long and grass-like conduplicate-keeled leaves, and numerous small flowers in 

 compound racemes, forming a long terminal panicle; in summer. (Name com- 

 po.sed of (TTei/o'f, narrow, and avdos, flower, from the slender sepals and panicles.) 



1. S. angustif61ium, Gray. Leaves linear, elongated ; flowers (J' long), 

 white, very short-pedicelled, in slender racemes ; the prolonged terminal one, 

 and often some of the lateral, fertile. (Veratrum angustifolium, Pursh. He- 

 lonias grarainea, Bot. Mag.) — Low prairies and meadows, Penn. to Illinois and 

 southward towards the mountains. — Stem slender, 2° - 6° high. 



6. VERATRUM, Tourn. False Helleboee. 



Flowers monceciously polygamous. Perianth of 6 spreading and separate 

 obovate-oblong (greenish or brownish) sepals, more or less contracted at the 

 base, entirely free from the ovary, not gland-bearing. Filaments free from the 

 sepals and shorter than they, recurving. Anthers, pistils, fruit, &c. nearly as 

 in Melanthium. — Somewhat pubescent perennials, with simple stems from a 

 thickened base producing coarse fibrous roots (very poisonous), 3-ranked leaves, 

 and racemed-panicled dull or dingy flowers; in summer. (Name formed of 

 vere, truly, and ater, black.) 



1. v. vlride, Ait. (Ameeican White Helleboee. Indian Poke.) 

 Stefn stout, very leafy to the top (2° -4° high); leaves broadly oval, pointed, 

 shealh clasping, strongly plaited; panicle pyramidal, the dense spihe-like racemes 

 spreading ; perianth yellowish-green, moderately spreading. — Swamps and low 

 grounds : common. (Much too near V. album of Europe. ) 



2. V. parviflbrum, Michx. Stem slender (2° -5° high), sparingly leafy 

 below, naked aboce; leaves scarcely plaited, glabrous, contracted into sheathing peti- 

 oles, varying from oval to lanceolate ; panicle very long and loose, the terminal 

 raceme wand-like, the lateral slender and spreading ; pedicels as long as the flow- 



