LILIACEAE (LILY FAMILY) 



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S. stellata. Flowers larger than the foregoing and on solitary- 

 pedicels in a simple, few-flowered raceme. Stamens not longer than 



the sepals. Rootstock rather 

 slender. Moist banks, com- 

 mon. 



MAIANTHEMUM 



Flowers perfect. Fruit 

 a berry. Perianth seg- 

 ments distinct. Low. Stem 



Smilacina stellata. False Solomon's 

 seal. Inflorescence and rootstock. 



SnUtacifia raeemosa. False Solomon's seal. 



1—3 leaved. Flowers 4-parted, solitary or fascicled, in a simple 

 raceme. (Name from Mains, May, and anthemos, a flower.) 



M. canadense. Wild Lily-of-the- Valley. Leaves lanceolate or 

 ovate, cordate at base, sessile or very shortly petioled. Moist woods. 



DISPORUM 



Flowers perfect. Fruit a berry. Perianth-segments distinct. 

 Leafy-stemmed. Flowers few in terminal umbels, or solitary. 

 Perianth narrowly bell-shaped, the 6 lanceolate or linear divisions 

 deciduous. Downy low herbs, with creeping rootstocks. Stems 

 erect and sparingly branched above. Leaves thin, ovate, and 

 closely sessile. Flowers greenish-yellow and drooping. (Name 

 from dis, double, and spora, seed, in allusion to the two ovules in 

 each cell of the ovary.) 



