. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. i. Chamaelirium luteum (L.) A. Gray. Blazing-star. Fig. 1226. Veratrum luteum L. Sp. PI. 1044. 1753. Chamaelirium carolinianum Willd. Mag. Nat. Fr. Berl. 2: 19. 1808. Chamaelirium luteum A. Gray, Man. 503. 1848. C. obovale Small, Torreya 1: 108. 1901. Staminate plant ii°-2i° tall, the pistillate often taller, sometimes 40 high. Basal leaves 2'-8' long, i'-ii' w
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. i. Chamaelirium luteum (L.) A. Gray. Blazing-star. Fig. 1226. Veratrum luteum L. Sp. PI. 1044. 1753. Chamaelirium carolinianum Willd. Mag. Nat. Fr. Berl. 2: 19. 1808. Chamaelirium luteum A. Gray, Man. 503. 1848. C. obovale Small, Torreya 1: 108. 1901. Staminate plant ii°-2i° tall, the pistillate often taller, sometimes 40 high. Basal leaves 2'-8' long, i'-ii' wide, mostly obtuse, tapering into a long petiole; stem leaves lanceolate, the or upper linear, acute or acuminate, sessile or the lower short-petioled; staminate raceme nodding or finally erect, s'-g' long, pedicels spreading, i"-2" long; pistillate raceme erect; flowers nearly 3" broad; capsule oblong or somewhat obovoid, 4 - 7" long, a"-3" in diameter. In moist meadows and thickets, Massachusetts to southern Ontario and Michigan, south to Florida and Arkansas. Called also Devil's bit, unicorn-root or -horn, drooping starwort. False unicorn-plant. May- July. 7. CHROSPERMA Raf. Neog. 3. 1825. [Amianthium A. Gray, Ann. Lye. N. Y. 4: 121. 1837.] An erect glabrous herb, with an ovoid-oblong coated bulb, and numerous long blunt basal leaves, a few short ones on the stem. Flowers perfect, white, in a dense terminal raceme, the lower ones first expanding. Perianth of 6 distinct glandless persistent obtuse segments. Stamens inserted on the bases of the sepals; anthers small, reniform. Ovary ovoid, 3-lobed, 3-celled. Capsule 3-celled, dehiscent above the middle, the cavities 1-2- seeded, its 3 divergent lobes tipped with the subulate styles. Seeds ovoid, reddish brown. [Greek, referring to the colored seeds.] A monotypic genus of eastern North America based on Melanthium laetum Soland. i. Chrosperma muscaetoxicum (Walt.) Kuntze. Fly-poison. Fig. 1227. Me
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