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ers, deep pink, the 3-lobed lip white, spotted with purple. Sev- 

 eral flowers in a spike. Slender stem, 8 to 10 inches high, from 

 a creeping rootstock. 



Growing mostly northward. 



85. Clasping-leaved Twisted-stalk 



Str'eptopus amplexifhlius ("twisted foot"). — Family, Lily. 

 Color, greenish white. Leaves, rounded at base and clasping 

 the stem ; thin and pointed. Time, May to July. 



Perianth, bell-shaped, its 6 pointed sepals curved backward. 

 Stamens, 6, with arrow-shaped anthers on short, flattened fila- 

 ments. Fruit, a red, many-seeded berry. The flowers, \ inch 

 long, grow from the leaf-axils on slender peduncles i to 2 

 inches long, which are abruptly bent or twisted in the middle; 

 hence the name. Stem a creeping rootstock, from which the 

 branches arise, 2 to 3 feet in height, forking, bearing the nod- 

 ding flowers near the ends. 



86. Sessile-leaved Twisted-stalk 



5. rhseus has pink or purple bells of flowers hanging under- 

 neath the branches, with leaves, finely hairy, clasping the stem, 

 as in the above. The flower peduncles are slightly bent; 

 branches and leaves somewhat hairy, i? to 30 inches high. 



These are graceful, pretty plants, with a strong likeness to the 

 uvularias and Solomon's-seals. 



Range of both species, throughout the Atlantic States and 

 northward, among the mountains of New York to Virginia. 



87. Yellow Clintonia 



Clintbnia bored/is. — Family, Lily -of -the -valley. Color, 

 cream or greenish yellow. Leaves, 2, 3, or 4, sheathing the 

 base of the flower -stem, oval or oblong, pointed, parallel- 

 veined, hairy. Time, middle of May into June. 



A pretty plant, with leaves like lily-of-the-valley, and stem 6 



