LILIACE-ffi. (lilt family.) 525 



2. Z. glailCUS, Nutt. Stem l°-3°high from a coated bulb; leaves flat; 

 panicle rather simple and few-flowered ; base of the perianth coherent with the base 

 of the ovary, the thin ovate or obovate sepals marked with a large obcordate 

 gland, (Anticlea glanca, Kunth.) — Along the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes 

 (Bergen Swamp, Gennesee Co., New York, G. T. Fish) to N. Illinois : rare. 



* * Glands of the perianth obscure. (Here also Amianthium Nuttallii, Gray.) 



3. Z. leimanthoides. Stem 1°- 4° high from a somewhat bulbous base, 

 slender; leaves narrowly linear; flowers small (4" in diameter) and numerous, 

 in a few crowded panicled racemes ; only a yellowish spot on the contracted base 

 of the divisions of the free perianth. (Amianthium leimanthoides, Gray.) — 

 Low grounds, pine barrens of New Jersey {Darand, Knieskern) and southward. 



5. STENANTHIUM, Gray ( under Veratrum ) . 



Flowers polygamous. Perianth spreading; the sepals narrowly lanceolate, 

 tapering to a point from the broader base, where they are united and coherent 

 with the base of the ovary, not gland-bearing, persistent, much longer than the 

 short stamens. Anthers, pods, &c. nearly as in Nos. 4 and 6. Seeds nearly 

 wingless. — Smooth, with a wand-like leafy stem from a somewhat bulbous base, 

 long and grass-like conduplicate-keeled leaves, and numerous small flowers in 

 compound racemes, forming a long terminal panicle ; in summer. (Name com- 

 posed of crrevos, narrow, and avOos, flower, from the slender sepals and panicles. ) 



1. S. angUStifolium, Gray. Leaves linear, elongated ; flowers (£' long), 

 white, very short -pedicelled, in slender racemes ; the prolonged terminal one, 

 and often some of the lateral, fertile. (Veratrum angustifolium, Pursh. He- 

 lonias graminea, Bot. Mag.) — Low prairies and meadows, Penn. to Illinois and 

 southward towards the mountains. — Stem slender, 2° -6° high. 



6. VERATRUM, Tourn. False Hellebore. 



Flowers monoeciously polygamous. Perianth of 6 spreading and separate 

 obovate-oblong (greenish or brownish) sepals, more or less contracted at the 

 base, entirely free from the ovary, not gland-bearing. Filaments free from the 

 sepals and shorter than they, recurving. Anthers, pistils, fruit, &c. nearly as 

 in Melanthium. — Somewhat pubescent perennials, with simple stems from a 

 thickened base producing coarse fibrous roots (very poisonous), 3-ranked leaves, 

 and racemed-panicled dull or dingy flowers ; in summer. (Name formed of 

 vere, truly, and ater, black.) 



1. V. viride, Ait. (American White Hellebore. Indian Poke.) 

 Stem stout, very leafy to the top (2° -4° high); leaves broadly oval, pointed, 

 sheath clasping, strongly plaited; panicle pyramidal, the dense spike-like racemes 

 spreading; perianth yellowish-green, moderately spreading. — Swamps a^d low 

 grounds: common. (Much too near V. album of Europe.) 



2. V. parvifldrum, Michx. Stem slender (2° -5° high), sparingly leafy 

 below, naked above; leaves scarcely plaited, glabrous, contracted into sheathing peti- 

 oles, varying from oval to lanceolate ; panicle very long and loose, the terminal 

 raceme wand-like, the lateral slender and spreading ; pedicels as long as the flow- 



