222 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA 



Obs. This species, as yet, has been found with us only in the above locality. 

 where it was collected, in 1830, by Mr. Joshua Hoopes. Thofruit I have not scei 



3. S. racemosa, Deaf. Leaves numerous, oblong-oval, acuminate 

 subscssile, nerved, pubescent ; raceme compound, paniculate. Bed % 

 Bot. p. 358. CK * 



Convallaria raccmosa. WiUd. Sp. 2. p. 163. Mx. Am. 1. /,. 202 

 JPers. Syn. 1. /;. 373. Ait. Kew. 2. p. 280. Muhl Ccitnl. p. 35. Bivel 

 Host. p. 133. Torr. FL I. p. 354. Ej. Comp.p. 154. Eat. Man. p. 104' 

 Racemose Smilacixa. Vulgd — Wild Spikenard. 



Root perennial, fibrous. IViizoma creeping, jointed, with cicatrices at the joints 

 Stem 1 to 2 feet high, somewhat angular and flexuose, smooth below, slightly rJ. 

 bescent above. Leaves 4 to 6 inches Long, and an inch and half to near 3 inch 

 wide, conspicuously acuminate, many-nerved, with 3 more distinct than the others 8 

 sprinkled with very short hairs on the upper surface, pubescent beneath, and cm 

 the margin, contracted at base to a short margined petiole. Raceme 2 to 4 inche 

 long, branching, oblong, or conical, many-flowered ; branches alternate, roughJah- 

 pubescent ; pedicels short, with minute bracts at base. Perianth yellowish white' 

 deeply 6-parted; segments narrow, lancc-oblong, spreading. Stamens rather 

 longer than the perianth. Ovary ovoid, acuminate; style very short; stitn a 

 obscurely 3-lobed. Berries numerous, globoso, pale red, semi-pellucid, speckled 

 with purple spots when mature, rarely perfecting more than 2 seeds, and often tut 

 one. Seed subglobose, somewhat compressed. 



Hab. Moist grounds ; fence-rows, and woodlands .-common. FL May. /V.Scpt. 



Obs. The mature fruit hat an aromatic and not unpleasant taste. Two or thrac 

 additional species are enumerated in the U. State s,-though the genus is not Z 

 definitively settled. * l 



176. UVULARIA. L. Mitt. Gen. 327. 

 [Latin ; diminutive of Uva, a cluster ; alluding, perhaps, to the inflorescence.] 



Perianth deeply 6-parted ; segments lancc-oblong, acute, almost dis- 

 tinct at base, twice as long as the stamens. Filamehts very short di 

 latcd ; anthers long, linear, erect, adnatc to the filaments. Ovary su 

 penor ; style tnfid, longer than the stamens ; stigmas recurved. Cat)- 

 sule 3-angled, 3-celled, 3-valved; valves septiferous in the middle. Seeds 

 numerous, subglobose, arillate at the hilum. Mitt. 



Herbaceous: leaves alternate, simple, with parallel nerves ; peduncles axillarr 

 1-flowered. Nat. Ord. 215. Lindl Melanthaceje. (Smilaceje. Torr. Beck.) ' 



I. U. perforata, L. Leaves perfoliate, elliptic-lanceolate, mostly 

 acute ; perianth subcampanulate, tuberculate-scabrous within ; anthers 

 cuspidate ; capsule truncate. Beck, Bot. p. 361. Icox, Bart. Am. I 

 tab. o2. 



Sk. I. p. 390. Torr. FL 1. p. 351. Ejusd. Comp. p. 153. Lindl 

 Ency. p. 270. Beck, Bot. p. 3(52. Eat. Man. p. 379. 

 Perfoliate Uvulaiiia. Fw/g-o— Bell-wort. 



Root perennial, fasciculate, fleshy. Stem 9 to 15 or 18 inches high, with sheath- 

 ing st.pules near the base, forked near the summit, terete, smooth. Leaves 2 to 3 

 inches long and an inch to an inch and half wide, varying from ovato to elliptic 

 and oblong-lanceolate, generally acute (obtuse, Author,), perfoliate near the base, 



