. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. LILIACE^ 301 half as long as petals: leaves ovate, taper-pointed, distinctly petioled, obtuse or rounded at the base. Cool damp woods, from New Brunswick to Georgia, and west. 11. ASPAEAGUS. Mostly tall, often climbing plants with cladophylla and very small scale-like true leaves: flowers white or greenish, small, bell-shaped, scat- tered or in groups of 2 or 3: fruit a 3-loculed and 1-G-seeded small berry. A. oiiicinalis, Linn. Common asparagus. Figs. 147, 148. Erect and branchy, the strong young shoots thick and edible: berries re
. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. LILIACE^ 301 half as long as petals: leaves ovate, taper-pointed, distinctly petioled, obtuse or rounded at the base. Cool damp woods, from New Brunswick to Georgia, and west. 11. ASPAEAGUS. Mostly tall, often climbing plants with cladophylla and very small scale-like true leaves: flowers white or greenish, small, bell-shaped, scat- tered or in groups of 2 or 3: fruit a 3-loculed and 1-G-seeded small berry. A. oiiicinalis, Linn. Common asparagus. Figs. 147, 148. Erect and branchy, the strong young shoots thick and edible: berries red. Eur. A. plumdsus, Baker. Fig. 149. Twining, with dark, frond-like foliage, small white flowers and 434. >» black berries. S. Africa; greenhouses. Asparagus medeoloides. ^ medeololdes, Thunb. Smilax of florists (but not of botanists). Fig. 434. Twining: foliage broad and leaf-like: fls. soli- tary and fragrant: berries dark green. S. Africa; much grown by florists. 12. SMILACiNA. False Solomon's Seal. Low, erect plants with many small white flowers in racemes or pani- cles: perianth 6-parted: fruit a 3-loculed berry: rootstock creeping. S. racemdsa, Desf. False s])ikenafd. About 2 ft., tall, somewhat downy, with many oblong or oval leaves: flowers in a panicle: berries pale red, speckled. Spring and early summer. Rich woods. S. , Desf. Nearly or quite smooth: leaves narrower: flowers in a simple raceme. Forms patches in low ground. 13. MAIANTHEMUM. Two-leaved Solomon's Seal. Neat little herbs, with slender rootstocks: stems unbranched, few- leaved: flowers small, in an open raceme, with usually 2 or 3 pedicels together: perianth of 4 ovate, obtuse, spreading segments, united at base: fruit a globular 1-2 seeded berr}'. One species in eastern North America. M. Canadense, Desf. Slender stem, 3-6 in. high, terminated by the many-flowered raceme: flowers white: leaves ovate, cordate at base, short- stalked. Common in moist woods and on shaded banks, making mats or pa
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