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2. Paris. Perianth horizontally patent, 8 -parted to the base, 
4 inner or cor. narrower than the others. Stam. 8. Anth. 
fixed to the middle of a subulate filament. Styles 4. Berry 
4-celled, cells with 4 — 8 seeds. 
3. Convallaria. Perianth bellshaped or tubular, 6-parted 
or 6-toothed. Ovary 3-celled, cells with 2 ovules. Stigma 
obtuse, trigonous. Berry with 1 -seeded cells. 
4. Maianthemum. Perianth 4-parted, segments horizontally 
patent or reflexed. Stam. 4. Style 1. Stigma obtuse. 
Berry 2-celled, cells 1 -seeded. 
5. Ruscus. Perianth 6-parted to the base. Male with the 
filaments connected into a tube on the top of which the 3 
anth. are placed. Fem. the same but the anthers barren. 
Style 1. Stigma capitate. Berry 3-celled, cells 2-seeded. 
1. Asparagus Linn. 
1. A. officinalis (L.) ; st. herbaceous mostly erect without 
spines branched, 1. fasciculated terete flexible setaceous, " limb 
of the perianth twice as long as the tube." — E. B. 339. — Root 
creeping. Stems numerous, scaly, erect, or rarely procumbent, 
rarely more than a foot high (in cultivation 3 feet). — Wild state 
of the garden Asparagus. Sea-coast, rare. Kynance Cove, 
Cornwall. Callar Point, Pemb. Gosford Links, Scotl. P. VIII. 
2. Paris Linn. 
1. P. quadrifolia (L.) ; 1. usually 4 in a whorl. — E. B. 7. — St. 
about a foot high, springing from the extremity of a long rhizoma, 
usually with 4, occasionally from 3 — 6 1. at its summit. Fl. 
solitary terminal. Sep. lanceolate. Pet. subulate. No root 1. 
See Loud. Mag. Nat. Hist. v. 429. — Damp woods. P. V. 
Herb Paris. 
3. Convallaria Linn. 
* Flowers cylindrical-tubular, white with green tips. 
1. C. verticiflata (L.) ; I. linear-lanceolate ivhorled, st. erect 
angular. — E. B. 128.— St. 2 feet high. L. 3—5 in a whorl. 
Berries red. — Woods. Den of Rechip near Dunkeld. P. VI. — S. 
2. C. Polygonafum (L.) ; 1. ovate-oblong half clasping gla- 
brous alternate, st. angular, peduncles 1 — 2-flowered, filaments 
glabrous.— E. B. 280.— Height 1— H foot. Berry bluish.— 
Woods, rare. P. V. Solomon's Seal. E. 
3. C. multifiora (L.) ; 1. ovate-oblong half clasping glabrous 
alternate, st. round, peduncles 1- or many-flowered, filaments 
downy.— E. B. 279-— Height 2 feet. Berry bluish.— Woods. 
P. V. Solomon's Seal. E. S. 
