HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Convallaria. 435 
(2) Blossoms infundibidiform. 
C. verticilla'ta. Leaves in numerous whorls. 
E. Bot. 128 —Clus. Hist. i. 277. 1—Lob. Ic. 805. 1— Dod. 345. 2—Ger. Em. 
903. 2— FI. Ban. 86. 
(Stem two feet high, angular, naked below. E.) Leaves strap-spear¬ 
shaped, glaucous beneath, sessile, mostly verticillate. Fruit-stalks axil¬ 
lary, from one to three drooping flowers on each. Blossom yellow white, 
nearly cylindrical. (Berry red when ripe ; in its unripe state marbled, 
but never blue. Br. E.) 
(Verticillate Solomon's Seal. E.) In woods. In the Den of Rechip, 
four miles north-east of Dunkeld, Perthshire, (chiefly towards the head 
of the Den. First discovered there by Mr. G. Don of Forfar, and not by 
A. Bruce, Esq. as has been erroneously stated. Mr. Brown. 
P. June—Aug. 
C. polygona'tum. Leaves alternate, embracing the stem : stem two- 
edged: fruit-stalks axillary, mostly one-flowered: (filaments 
smooth. E.) 
Kniph. 3— (Hook. FI. Lond. E.)— Ludw. 47— FI. Dan. 377—E. Bot. 280— 
Woodv. 44— Clus. i. 276. 1— Dod. 346. l—Ger. Em. 904. 3 —J. B. iii. 529. 
2 — Park. 696. 3. Jig. 1st. — II. Ox. xiii. 1. 4— Pet. 44. 6— Barr. 711. 1— 
Blackw. 251. 2— Ger. 756. 1. 
(Stem angular, flexuose, twelve to eighteen inches high. Leaves elliptical, 
broad, ribbed, plaited. Flowers fragrant as those of Hawthorn or 
Heleotrope, says Smith; E.) sometimes two, onf long fruit-stalks, 
hanging down on the side opposite to the direction of the leaf; white, 
with a green line running down each segment; segments rather incurved. 
Berries black. Woodw. (Two important characters by which this plant 
may more surely be known from its affinity C. multijlora, than by any 
other, are the smoothness of the JUaments and the straightness of the 
style. Hook.: the former distinction was not overlooked by Scopoli. E.) 
Var. 2. Solomon’s Seal with White Hellebore leaves and a purplish stalk. 
Ray. 
Woods on the north side of the Mendip Hills. Ih. 
Sweet-scented or Angular Solomon’s Seal. Fissures of rocks near 
Wherf and Skipton Yorkshire; rocky part of Syke’s Wood, near Ingle- 
ton, Yorkshire. Mr. Caley. (Coppices about Alderbury, Wilts. Dr. 
Maton. Rock near the sea at Tenby. Countess of Aylesford. On rocks 
at Kyloe, a few miles south of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Mr. Winch. On 
a rock on the south side of Cheddar Cliffs, Somersetshire, above the 
first wall by the road side: also at the edge of a wood above the road 
about half way between Wynde Cliff and Tintern. Mr. W. Christy. E.) 
P. May—June.* 
C. multiflo'ra. Leaves alternate, embracing the cylindrical stem: 
fruit-stalks axillary, one to many-flowered: (filaments covered 
with soft hairs. E.) 
* In a scarcity of provisions, the roots, which abound with mucilage, have been used, 
among a multitude of other miserable substitutes, for bread. Sheep and goats eat this 
plant. Horses, cows, and swine refuse it. 
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