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from Massachusetts to Virginia, in grassy lawns, side by side 

 with the grape hyacinth. 



0, nutans has flowers in nodding racemes, with stout pedicels 

 and narrow, pointed bracts. A garden species found wild in 

 eastern Pennsylvania. 



White Clintonia 



Clintbnia. umbellulkta.. — Family, Lily. Color, white, with pur- 

 ple or greenish dots. Flowers, fragrant, in a many-flowered umbel 

 at the end of a scape 8 to 18 inches high. Fruit, a roundish, black 

 berry. Leaves, 2 to 5, from the root, broad, pointed, parallel- 

 veined, hairy around the margins and sometimes along the mid- 

 rib underneath, their petioles sheathing the base of the scape; 

 sometimes a small leaf on the scape. May and June. 



Deep, cool, moist woods. New York to Georgia and 

 Tennessee. On the mountains in Virginia. 



False Spikenard 



Smilacina. racemosa.. — Family, Lily. The small flowers cluster 

 in terminal panicles. Perianth, 6-divided. Stamens, 6. Leaves, 

 3 to 6 inches long, alternate, clasping, or the lower with petioles, 

 broad, acute at apex, parallel-veined, with minutely hairy mar- 

 gins. May to July. 



In moist woods from Nova Scotia to Georgia and west- 

 ward. 



A familiar plant, blossoming about the last of May, in 

 cool woods and on hillsides, often in moist ground. The 

 single ascending stem, producing rather large leaves, rises 

 straight or zigzag to a height of 2 to 3 feet, and bears on its 

 tip a compound panicle of fine, white, pedicelled blossoms, 

 slightly fragrant. In fall these flowers give rise to a lovely 

 bunch of pale-crimson, purple-dotted berries. 



Many call this, wrongly, Solomon's Seal. 



False Solomon's Seal 

 S. siellkta. — This is a smaller species than the last, 1 foot high, 

 growing under similar conditions. The flowers, in a terminal, 

 simple raceme, are larger than the last, and fewer, each with a 

 distinct pedicel. Most of the leaves clasp the stem, without pet- 

 ioles. Flowers appear about the middle of May, and the berries 

 in September are a purplish black or green with black stripes. 



Both of these plants grow from a creeping rootstock, like 

 the true Solomon's Seal, and they are among our interesting 

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