April, 1913.] 
Liliales of Ohio. 
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1. Medeola virginiana L. Indian Cucumber-root. 1-2^2 
feet high; the lower whorl of leaves sessile, acuminate, narrowed 
at the base, 3 to 5 nerved; umbel 2-9 flowered; perianth segments 
obtuse; berry dark purple. General. 
19. Streptopus Mx. Twisted Stalk. 
Branching herbs with thin, sessile, or clasping, alternate 
leaves. Flowers solitary or in two’s, greenish, rose or purplish, 
small and nodding; peduncles bent or twisted at about the middle; 
perianth campanulate of 6 spreading or recurved segments, 
deciduous, stamen-filaments short; style slender. 
1. Streptopus amplexifolius (L.) DC. Clasping-leaf 
twisted stalk. Plant 16-36 in. high, usually branching below 
the middle; leaves cordate clasping at the base, glabrous; berry 
oval. Reported for Ohio. 
20. Disporum Salisb. 
Herbs with slender root stocks and branching stems. Leaves 
alternate, sessile or clasping; flowers terminal, nodding, solitary 
or in simple umbels, white or greenish-yellow; perianth of narrow, 
deciduous, segments; anthers extrorse; style slender; berry oval 
or ovoid. 
1. Disporum lanuginosum (Mx.) Nich. Hairy Disporum. 
Pubescent herbs with ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate leaves, 
2-4 in. long, long acuminate at the apex and rounded at the base. 
Flowers solitary, or in two’s or three’s, greenish, }4 in. long,, 
campanulate, glabrous, style slender; berry oval, red. In woods. 
Huron, Lorain, Cuyahoga, Ashtabula, Medina, Columbiana, 
Morrow, Perry, Richland, Wayne, Adams. 
21. Salomonia Heist. Solomon’s Seal. 
Herbs with scarred root-stocks and simple aerial stems, scaly 
below and leafy above, the leaves sessile and alternate in ours. 
Flowers usually greenish, axillary, drooping, peduncled, solitary 
or umbellate; pedicels jointed at the base; perianth 6-lobed; 
stamens included, united with the perianth; styles slender; fruit 
a dark blue berry with a bloom. 
1. Plants glabrous throughout; filaments smooth, flowers usually clustered. 
5. commutata. 
1. Leaves pubescent beneath; filaments roughened, flowers usually in 
two’s. 5. biflora. 
1. Salomonia commutata (R. & S.) Brit. Smooth Solomon’s- 
seal. A glabrous herb, 1-8 ft. high. Leaves rounded and some¬ 
times clasping at the base; peduncle 1-8 flowered, glabrous; 
flowers Yi-yfm.. long. In moist woods and along streams. Gen¬ 
eral. 
