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/. Inflorescence a 1-few- flowered umbel; flowers greenish; plant widely 



branched. 13. Disporum 



/. Inflorescence a panicle or a short raceme ; plant mostly unbranched. 

 g. Flowers paniculate, green ; leaves broad, strongly plaited. 



2. Veratrum 

 g. Flowers racemose or paniculate, white ; leaves not plaited or only 

 slightly so (see also 3d g). 

 h. Perianth parts and stamens 4; leaves broad, cordate. 



12. Maianthemum 

 h. Perianth parts and stamens 6; leaves tapering at base. 



11. Smilacina 

 g. Flowers in a long slender spike or a spike-like raceme, dioecious ; 

 leaves linear. 1. Chamaelirium 



1. Chamaelirium Willd. 

 1. C. luteum (L.) Gray. (C. Carolinianum of Cayuga Fl.) Devil's Bit. 



Damp or rather dry sandy or gravelly acid soils, in open woods of oak and chestnut ; 

 scarce. June 15-July 15. 



Ball Hill, Danby (D. in C. U. Herb.) ; Cascadilla woods (D.) ; Fall Creek woods 

 (D.) ; C. U. farm (D. in C. U. Herb.); "Turkey Hill [!] and elsewhere" (£>.) ; 

 n. e. of Pout Pond. 



W. Mass. to Mich., southw. to Fla., Ark., and Nebr. ; rare on the Coastal Plain. 



The distribution of this plant is puzzling. Though occurring here in soils that 

 suggest a Coastal-Plain distribution, it is almost entirely absent from that region 

 (see W. Stone, Flora of N. J.). 



2. Veratrum (Tourn.) L. 

 1. V. viride Ait. American White, False, or Green Hellebore. 



Low meadows, woods, and the borders of marshes, in rich mucky or alluvial, 

 probably almost neutral, soils ; frequent. June-July. 



Renwick flats; headwaters swamp of Pleasant Grove Brook; n. e. of Hanshaw 

 Corners ; Etna ; Ringwood ; McLean ; Freeville ; and elsewhere. 



N. B. and Que. to Minn., Alaska (?), and Wash., southw. to Ga., Tenn., and Colo.; 

 less frequent on the Atlantic Coastal Plain. 



3. Uvular ia L. 



a. Capsule broadly truncate, obovoid, 3-lobed, angled, not winged ; leaves perfoliate. 

 b. Perianth segments granulose within ; stamens shorter than the styles ; connective 

 acuminate ; carpels 2-ridged on the angles, 2-beaked ; leaves glabrous. 



1. U. perfoliata 

 b. Perianth segments glabrous within; stamens exceeding the styles; connective 



obtuse ; capsule obtusely angled ; leaves whitish-puberulent beneath. 



2. U. grandiflora 

 a. Capsule acute at each end, with 3 winged angles ; leaves sessile, not perfoliate. 



3. U. sessilifolia 

 1. U. perfoliata L. Perfoliate Bellwort. Wild Oat. 



Open, rather dry, woodlands, mostly near ravines, in somewhat sterile gravelly or 

 sandy, acid or subcalcareous, soils ; frequent. May ; flowering two weeks or more 

 later than the species next following. 



N. e. of Spencer; Caroline hills; Bull Hill, Newfield; near Lucifer Falls; Coy 

 Glen; w. of Cayuta Lake; Beech Woods, Six Mile Creek; Beebe Lake; Ringwood; 

 Esty Glen ; Shurger Glen ; cliffs n. of King Ferry ; Paine Creek. 



E. Mass. to N. Dak., southw. to Fla. and Miss. ; less frequent on the Coastal Plain. 



