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CALOCHORTACEAE. 
Flowers axillary, greenish-white; filaments slender; anthers acute. 
2. STREPTOrUS. 
Flowers terminal, yellow; filaments dilated; anthers obtuse. 3. Disporum. 
Sepals and petals partially united into a tube; flowers axillary. 4. Salomonia. 
1. VAGNERA Adans. 1 False Solomon’s Seal, Wild Spikenard. 
Inflorescence paniculate. 
Leaf-blades acuminate ; the lower contracted at the base into distinct petioles. 
1. V. racemosa. 
Leaf-blades acute; all sessile and more or less clasping. 2. V. amplexicaulis. 
Inflorescence racemose. 
Petals and sepals linear or linear-lanceolate. 3. V. leptopetala. 
Petals and sepals oblong-lanceolate. 
Pedicels short, slightly if at all longer than the flowers or the fruit; leaves 
lanceolate, acute. 4. V. stellata. 
Pedicels long; the lower often 2-3 times as long as the flowers or the fruit; 
leaves narrowly lanceolate, long-attenuate. 5. V. liliacea. 
1. Vagnera racemosa (L.) Morong. ( Smilacina racemosa Desf.) In moist 
woods from N. S. to Wash., Ga. and Calif.—Alt. 6500-8500 ft.—Ojo; Ouray; 
Boulder Canon. 
2. Vagnera amplexicaulis (Nutt.) Morong. ( Smilacina amplexicaulis 
Nutt.) In rich woods from Mont, to B. C., Colo, and Calif.—Alt. 6000-9000 
ft.—La Plata River Canon; Big Creek Gulch, Routt Co.; Black Canon; 
Poverty Ridge, Cimarron; Redcliffe; Ouray; Veta Mountain; headwaters 
of Pass Creek; near Pagosa Peak; Gore Pass; banks of Fish Creek; gulch 
south of Boulder; Flematite. 
3. Vagnera leptopetala Rydb. In dark, wooded canons of Colo.—Alt. 
9000-10,000 ft.—Headwaters of Sangre de Cristo Creek; Dark Canon; 
Chicken Creek, West La Plata Mountains; near Pagosa Peak; Los Pinos. 
4. Vagnera stellata (L.) Morong. ( Smilacina stellata Desf.) In open 
woodlands from Newf. to Sask., Mont., Va. and Colo.—Alt. 4000-12,000 ft.— 
Ojo; Halfway House, Pike’s Peak; Colorado Springs; Ft. Collins; banks of 
Poudre River, north of La Porte; Horsetooth Gulch; mountain north of 
Steamboat Springs; Franklin; Campton’s ranch. 
5. Vagnera liliacea (Greene.) Rydb. ( Smilacina sessilifolia of Coulter’s 
Man. in part, not Nutt.) In moist woodlands from S. D. to B. C., N. M. and 
Calif.—Alt. 7500-9000 ft.—Chaparral-covered hills southeast of Ouray; Van 
Boxle’s Ranch, above Cimarron; headwaters of Sangre de Cristo Creek; 
Pike’s Peak. 
2. STREPTOPUS Michx. Twisted-stalk. 
1. Streptopus amplexifolius (L.) DC. In moist wood from Greenl. to 
Alaska, N. C., Colo, and Ore.—Alt. 6500-10,000 ft.—Cameron Pass; Rabbit- 
Ear Range; Upper La Plata River; near Pagosa Peak; Sangre de Cristo 
Creek; Keblar Pass; Columbine; Grant Lake; Jack Brook; mountains above 
Beaver Creek; Bosworth’s ranch; Stove Prairie; Big Creek Gulch; Steam¬ 
boat Springs. 
3. DISPORUM Salisb. 
1. Disporum trachycarpum (S. Wats.) B. & H. ( Prosartes trachycarpa 
S. Wats.) On mountain sides and in canons from Man. to B. C., Colo, and 
