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83. ASI’ARAGE^. 
or 6-toothed. Ovary 3-celled, cells with 2 ovules. Stigma 
obtuse, trigonous. Berry with 1 -seeded eeUs. — G. F. G. 
Monocot. ii. (iO. 61. 
3. Maianthemum. 4-j3«rted, segments horizontally 
]>atent or retle.xed. Stain. 4. Style 1. Stigma obtuse. 
Berry 2-eelled, cells 1-seeded. — G. F. G. Monoeot. ii. 62. 
4. Ruscus. Perianth 6-partcd to the base. Male with the 
filaments connected into a tube on the top of which the 3 
anth. are jdaced. Fern, the same but the anthers barren. 
Style 1. Stigma capitate. Berry 3-celled, cells 2-seeded. 
— G. F. G. Monocot. ii. 64. 
1. Asparagus ifww. 
1. A. officinalis (L.); st. herbaceous mostly erect without 
sjiines 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 jirocumbent, 
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. CoNVALLARIA Li/m. 
* Flowers cylindrical-tubular, white with green tips. 
1. C. verticillata (L.) ; 1. linear-lanceolate whorled, st. erect 
angular. — E. B. 128. — St. 2 feet high. L. 3 — 5 in a whorl. 
Berries red. — Woods. Den of Rechip near Dunkeld, and Craig- 
hall, Perthshire. Smalesmouth, N. Tyne, Northumberland. Mr. 
Storey. P. VI. E. S. 
2. C. Polygonatum (L.); 1. ovate-oblong half clasping gla- 
brous alternate, st. angular, peduncles 1 — 2-flowered, filaments 
glabrous. — E. B. 280. — Height 1 — foot. Berry bluish. — 
Woods, rare. P. V. Solomon’s Seal. E. 
3. C. multiflora (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. — M'^oods. 
P. V. Solomon’s Seal. E. S. 
** Flowers bellshaped, wholly white. 
4. C. majalis (L.) ; scape semicylinth-ical naked, fl. racemose 
nodding, 1. 2 ovate-lancec/ate radical. — E. B. 1035. St. 14. 10. 
— About a foot high. Fl. pure white globose-bellshaped, fra- 
grant.— Woods and thickets. P. V. Lily of the Valley. E. S. 
