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Moist woods. May, June. Stem zigzag, 2 feet high from a thick and" fleshy ront- 

 fdock. Leaves 1 to inches long, about y as wide, contracted into a long acumi- 

 natum. Flowers very numerous, small, white, on white pedicels, with white "ex- 

 scrlcd filaments. Berries pale red. speckled with purple, aromatic. 



2. S. stellata, Desf. Star-flowered Solomon's : 



Smooth or nearly so ; leaves 7 to 11, oblong-lanceolate, acute, minutely ciliate, 

 Slightly clasping, thickish; raceme simple, few-flowered: ovary 2-celled. 



Moist banks. May, June. Stem about 12 inches high, round. Leaves smooth , 

 glaucous beneath, 4 to 6 inches long. % to 1 inch wide, tapering to the apex. Floxo- 

 crs about 8, white, stellate. Berries blackish. 



3. 8. trifolia, Desf. Three-leaved- Solomon's Seal. 



Smooth, dwarf ; fames 3, sometimes 2 or 4, oblong or oval-lanceolate, short-pointed, 

 narrowed into a sheathing base; raceme simple, ovary 2. to 3-celled. 



Swamps. May, June. Stem 3 to C inches high. Leaves smooth on the marain, 

 ■about 2 inches long, y A as wide. Raceme terminal, erect, consisting of 4 to white 

 flowers. Perianth-lobes spreading. Anthers brownish. Berries red. 



Sec. n. Maiantiiemum, Desf. Divisions of the periardh and stamens 4. 



4. S. bifglia, ICer. Two-leaved Solomon's Seal 



Smooth or nearly so; stems low, mostly 2-leaved; leaves heart-shaped, petioled or 

 sessile; raceme simple, crowded. 



Shady moist woods, common. May. Stem 3 to 5 inches high, with 2 or some- 

 rimes 3 leaves near the summit, and often a larger radical leaf on a long petiole. 

 Flowers white, small, fragrant, in an oblong raceme, one inch long. Birries red- 

 .i:*ii. speckled. 



i. CLINTONIA, Raf. 



Dedicated to De Witt Clinton. 



Perianth 6-parted, "bell-shaped, lily-like, deciduous, 

 Stamens G, inserted at the base of the segments: fila- 

 ments long and thread-like : anthers linear-oblong. Ovary 

 ovoid-oblong, 2-celled ; style long, compressed : stigma 

 depressed. Berry ovoid, blue, few to many-seeded. — Acau- 

 fescent perennials, with slender creeping rootstocks, sending up a 

 naked scape, sheathed at the base by 2 to 4 large oblong or oval ciliate 

 leaves, and bearing rather large, umbdled or rarely single, white or 

 greenish Jlowers at the summit. 



1. C. BOREALIS, Raf. Northern CUntonia. 



'd 2 to 7-flcwered; ovary with 10' to 12 ovules in each cell. (Dracar-na 

 borealis. Ait.) 



Cold moist mountain weeds. June. Scape 6 to 8 inches high. Leaven radical, 

 5 to 8 inches long. Perianth % to %.inch long, greenish-yellow. Berry blue. 



2. G. umbellata, Torr. Small-flowered CUntonia. 



Umbel 12 to 30-flowered ; cells of ,the berry 2-seeied. (Convallaria umbellata, 

 Michx.) 



Rich woods, through the Alleghenies. June. Scape many-flowered, 9 to 12 inches 

 high. Leaves 2 to 5, 6 to 9 inches long. Flowers 15 to 30,-white, speckled with 

 purple ^ to % incu i° n S; odorous. 



