84 CALOCHORTACEAE. 



Flowers axillary, greenish-white ; filaments slender ; anthers acute. 



^. Steeptopus. 

 Flowers terminal, yellow ; filaments dilated ; anthers obtuse. 3. Dispoeum. 

 Sepals and petals partially united into a tube ; flowers axillary. 4. Salomonia. 



1. VAGNERA Adans. False Solomon's Seal, Wild Spikenard. 



Inflorescence paniculate. 



Leaf-blades acuminate ; the lower contracted at the base into distinct petioles. 



1. V. racemosa. 

 Leaf-blades acute ; all sessile and more or less clasping. 2. V. amplexicauUs. 

 Inflorescence racemose. 



Petals and sepals linear or linear-lanceolate. 3. V. leptopetala. 



Petals and sepals oblong-lanceolate. 



Pedicels short, slightly if at all longer than the flowers or the fruit ; leaves 



lanceolate, acute. 4. V. stellata. 



Pedicels long ; the lower often 2-3 times as long as the flowers or the fruit ; 

 leaves narrowly lanceolate, long-attenuate. 5. V. liliacea. 



1. Vagnera racemosa (L.) Morong. {Smilacina racemosa Desf.) In moist 

 woods from N. S. to Wash., Ga. and Calif. — Alt. 6500-8500 ft. — Ojo; Ouray; 

 Boulder Cafion. 



2. Vagnera amplexicauUs (Nutt.) Morong. {Smilacina amplexicauUs 

 Nutt.) In rich woods from Mont, to B. C, Colo, and Calif. — Alt. 6000-9000 

 ft. — La Plata River Caiion ; Big Creek Gulch, Routt Co. ; Black Canon ; 

 Poverty Ridge, Cimarron; Redcliffe; Ouray; Veta Mountain; headwaters 

 of Pass Creek; near Pagosa Peak; Gore Pass; banks of Fish Creek; gulch 

 south of Boulder; Hematite. 



3. Vagnera leptopetala Rydb. In dark, wooded cafions of Colo.— Alt. 

 9000-10,000 ft. — Headwaters of Sangre de Cristo Creek; Dark Cafion; 

 Chicken Creek, West La Plata Mountains ; near Pagosa Peak ; Los Pinos. 



4. Vagnera stellata (L.) Morong. {Smilacina stellata Desf.) In open 

 woodlands from Newf. to Sask., Mont., Va. and Colo. — Alt. 4000-12,000 ft— 

 Ojo; Halfway House, Pike's Peak; Colorado Springs; Ft. Collins; banks of 

 Poudre River, north of La Porte; Horsetooth Gulch; mountain north of 

 Steamboat Springs; Franklin; Campion's ranch. 



5. Vagnera liliacea (Greene.) Rydb. {Smilacina sessilifolia of Coulter's 

 Man. in part, not Nutt.) In moist woodlands from S. D. to B. C, N. M. and 

 Calif.— Alt 7500-9000 ft— Chaparral-covered hills southeast of Ouray; Van 

 Boxle's Ranch, above Cimarron; headwaters of Sangre de Cristo Creek; 

 Pike's Peak. 



2. STEEPTOPUS Michx. Twisted-stalk. 



I. Streptopus amplexifolius (L.) DC. In moist wood from Greenl. to 

 Alaska, N. C, Colo, and Ore.— Alt. 6500-10,000 ft.— Cameron Pass; Rabbit- 

 Ear Range; Upper La Plata River; near Pagosa Peak; Sangre de Cristo 

 Creek; Keblar Pass; Columbine; Grant Lake; Jack Brook; mountains above 

 Beaver Creek; Bosworth's ranch; Stove Prairie; Big Creek Gulch; Steam- 

 boat Springs. 



3. DISPORUM Salisb. 



I. Disporum trachycarpum (S. Wats.) B. & H. {Prosartes trachycarpa 

 S. Wats.) On mountain sides and in canons from Man. to B. C, Colo, and 



