436 HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Acorus. 
{Hook. FI. Lond. E.)— E. Bot. 279, ( berries inaccurately coloured. E.)— 
Mill. 101. 1— Wale. — FI. Dan. 152— Fuchs. 585— J. B. iii. 529. 1— Lonic. 
i. 170. 3— Clus. i. 275. 2— Dod. 345. 1— Lob. Obs. 368. 2— Ger. Em. 903. 1 
— Park. 696. 3— H. Ox. xiii. 1. row 3. 1— Pet. 44. 5— Blackw. 251. i. 1. 
5. 7— Trag. 399—Matth. 954—Ger. 756. 3. 
( Stem about two feet high, naked below. Leaves ovato-elliptical, large, 
marked with longitudinal nerves, rather paler than those of the preceding. 
E.) Fruit-stalks branched, usually with two flowers above, three lower 
down, frequently four at bottom, and in gardens more. Flowers smaller, 
and segments more pointed than in C. Polygonatum, white, tipped with 
green. Berries when ripe, black. Woodw. {Filaments rather hairy; 
whereas in the preceding species they are smooth. Scop. Carn. E.) 
(Mr. Dawson Turner finds this plant with peduncles often bearing only 
one, and seldom more than two flowers, yet sufficiently distinguishable 
by its cylindrical stem and the shape of its leaves. E.) 
Var. 2. Dwarf English Solomon s Seal. Ray. Woods in Wiltshire. Ib. 
Common Solomon’s Seal. Woods. Bramdean, Hampshire; Roehill, 
Kent; about High Wickham, Bucks. Copse at Gorlestone, Suffolk. 
Mr. Wigg. Woods at Bigland Hall, Cartmel, plentiful. Mr. Jackson. 
In the lane between Stockton and Stainton, Yorkshire. Mr. Robson. (In 
the pits called Lily Pits, at Bradwell, Suffolk. Mr. Wigg, in Bot. Guide. 
In Corpus Wood, two miles from Strateley, Berkshire. Baxter, in Pur- 
ton. In P-ostling Wood, Kent. Rev. Ralph Price, in Sm. Obs. Woods 
at Bothwell. Maughan, in Hook. Scot. E.) P. May—June.* 
AC'ORUS.f Spadix cylindrical, covered with florets : Bloss . 
six petals, naked : Style none : Caps, three-celled. 
A. cal/amus. Floral-leaf very much longer than the spike. 
( E. Bot. 356— FI. Dan. 1158— Bart. 30. E.)— Irndw. 34— Woodv. 173— 
Kniph. 9—Leers 13. 12— Blackw. 466— Clus. i. 231. 2—Dod. 249. 3— 
Ger. Em. 62. 1— Park. 140— J. B. ii. 734— H. Ox. viii. 13. 4— C. B. th. 
626— Dod. 249. 2— Lob. Obs. 30. 1 —Ger. Em. 62. 2—Clus. i. 231. 1— 
Lob. Obs. 30. 2. 
Spike about three inches long, closely studded with florets set in spiral lines. 
Stackh. Root half to one inch diameter, often one foot and a half long 
or more, sending out numerous long coarse fibres, (powerfully aromatic. 
E.) The old one decays every year, but two young ones shoot out from 
the crown of it. Stem flatted, (rarely so tall as the leaves, which are two 
or three feet high and nearly an inch broad; E.) bordered with a leafy 
edge, and above the insertion of the spike expanding into a leaf. Leaves 
sword-shaped, sheathing one another, some plaited in a serpentine line. 
Spike proceeding from the edge of the leaf. Petals membranous, thin, 
crowned with a kind of horizontal hat, (pale green. E.) 
* The young shoots are eaten by the Turks as Asparagus, and the roots have been made 
into bread, as those of the C. Polygonatum. Linn. Cows, goats, and sheep eat it. (For 
many curious particulars of the efficacy attributed to this plant in a more credulous age for 
the “ knitting together, soddering, or sealing” of broken bones, &c. vid. father Gerard, 
who even goeth so far as to assert, that “the roote of Salomon’s Seale stamped while it is 
greene, and applied, taketh away in one night, or two utmost, any bruse, blacke or blew 
spots gotten by falls or women's wilf nines, in stumbling upon their hastie husbands' fists, 
or such like.” p. 758. E.) 
+ (From xopvj, the pupil; having been esteemed beneficial in disorders of the eye. E.) 
