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14. Stenanthium Kunth. 
Erect, glabrous, bulbous, perennial herbs, with long grass¬ 
like, keeled leaves. Inflorescence of numerous small flowers, 
forming a long terminal panicle; perianth segments oblong or 
ovate, spreading; stamens somewhat shorter than the perianth; 
filaments sttbulate; anthers oblong. 
1. Stenanthium robustum Wats. Stout Stenanthium. Stem 
stout, usually leafy, 3-5 ft. tall, leaves 1 ft. or more long; panicle 
dense, usually compound; flowers greenish or white; capsule 
ovoid-oblong, erect, with a short recurved beak. Fairfield. 
15. Chamaelirium Willd. 
Smooth herbs with erect stems, from bitter, tuberous, root¬ 
stocks bearing a spike like raceme of small, white, bractless 
flowers, diecious; carpellate plant more leafy than the staminate; 
leaves flat, lanceolate or oblanceolate, tapering into a petiole; 
perianth of 6, 1-nerved segments; carpellate flower with vestigial 
stamens. 
1. Chamaelirium luteum (L.) Gr. Chamaelirium. Stem 
1- 4 feet high, the carpellate plant usually higher; basal leaves 
2- 8 in. long; capsule oblong. Sandusky, Erie, Cuyahoga, Sum¬ 
mit, Medina, Wayne, Licking, Lawrence. 
16. Tofieldia Huds. 
Perennial herbs with short, erect or horizontal rootstocks, 
flberous roots, and slender, erect, almost leafless stems. Leaves 
linear and clustered at the base; flowers bisporangiate in a terminal 
raceme, or rarely solitary, white or green; pedicels bracted; per¬ 
ianth segments oblong or obovate, persistent; stamens 6; anthers 
introrse; ovulary sessile, styles 3, recurved. 
1. Tofieldia glutinosa (Mx.) Pers. Glutinous Tofieldia. 
Stem vicid, pubescent, 6-20 in. tall with 2-4 basal leaves; inflores¬ 
cence a short raceme, three-eighths to one and one-fourth in. long, 
bearing small involucral bracts; flowers very small; perianth 
segments oblong or obtuse; capsule oblong. Stark, Champaign. 
Convallariatce. 
17. Trillium L. 
Glabrous, erect, unbranched herbs, from short, root-stocks, 
with a whorl of 3 leaves at the summit of the stem. Perianth of 
3 green, persistent sepals and 3 withering or deciduous, colored 
petals, ovulary 3 or 6 angled. 
1. Flowers peduncled. 2. 
1. Flowers sessile. 6. 
2. Leaves sessile or subsessile. 3. 
2. Leaves petioled; oval or ovate, o. 
