. 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. 522 CONVALLARIACEAE. Vol. I. 9. CONVALLARIA L. Sp. PI. 314. 1753. A low glabrous herb, with horizontal rootstocks, very numerous fibrous roots, and 2 or sometimes 3 erect broad leaves, narrowed into sheathing petioles, the lower part of the stem bearing several sheathing scales. Flowers white, racemed, fragrant, nodding. Raceme i-sided. Perianth globose-campanu
. 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. 522 CONVALLARIACEAE. Vol. I. 9. CONVALLARIA L. Sp. PI. 314. 1753. A low glabrous herb, with horizontal rootstocks, very numerous fibrous roots, and 2 or sometimes 3 erect broad leaves, narrowed into sheathing petioles, the lower part of the stem bearing several sheathing scales. Flowers white, racemed, fragrant, nodding. Raceme i-sided. Perianth globose-campanulate, 6-lobed, deciduous, the short lobes recurved. Stamens 6, included; filaments short, adnate to the .lower part of the perianth; anthers ob- long, introrse. Ovary 3-celled; ovules several in each cavity; style slender, 3-grooved; stigma small, capitate, slightly 3-lobed. Berry globose, pulpy. [Latin from Convallis, valley, and the Greek for lily.] A monotypic genus of Europe, Asia and the higher Alleghanies. i. Convallaria majalis L. Lily-of-the- valley. Fig. 1297. Convallaria majalis L. Sp. PI. 314. 1753. Convallaria majuscula Greene, Rep. Nov. Spec. 5: 46. 1907. Stem 4'-o/ high. Leaves oblong, or oval, appearing nearly basal, acute at both ends, S'-i2' long, i'-2i' wide; basal scales large, 1'-4' long, one of them subtending an erect angled scape shorter than the leaves; raceme i'-3i' long, loosely several-flowered; pedicels filiform, recurved, 3"-6" long, exceeding or sometimes shorter than the lanceolate bracts; perianth z'~A" long, its lobes 1" long or less; filaments shorter than the anthers; berry about 3" in diameter. On the higher mountains of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Common in cul- tivation. Consists of several slightly differing races. May blossoms. Wood-lily. Conval-lily. May-lily. Family 24. ' TRILLIACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 347. 1836. Wake-robin Family. Somewhat fleshy herbs, perennial by rootstocks.
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