. 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. Genus 4. LILt-OF-THE-VALLEY FAMILY. 517 1. Unifoliumcanadense (Desf.) Greene. False or Wild Lily-of-the-valley. Two- leaved Solomon's Seal. Fig. 1286. Maianthemum canadense Desf. Ann. Mus. Paris 9: 54. 1807. Smilacina bifolia var. canadensis A. Gray Man. Ed. 2, 467. 1856. Unifolium canadense Greene, Bull. Torr. Club 15: 287. 1888. Glabrous or pubescent. Stem sl
. 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. Genus 4. LILt-OF-THE-VALLEY FAMILY. 517 1. Unifoliumcanadense (Desf.) Greene. False or Wild Lily-of-the-valley. Two- leaved Solomon's Seal. Fig. 1286. Maianthemum canadense Desf. Ann. Mus. Paris 9: 54. 1807. Smilacina bifolia var. canadensis A. Gray Man. Ed. 2, 467. 1856. Unifolium canadense Greene, Bull. Torr. Club 15: 287. 1888. Glabrous or pubescent. Stem slender, erect, often zigzag, 1-3-leaved (usually 2-leaved), 2'-/ high; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1'-3' long, acute, acuminate, or blunt and cus- pidate at the apex, cordate at the base with a narrow or closed sinus, sessile, short-petioled, or the lowest sometimes with a petiole ¥ long; solitary leaves of the stemless plants on petioles 1/-4' long; raceme rather dense, many- flowered, i'-2' long; pedicels mostly longer than the flowers; perianth-segments oblong, obtuse, becoming reflexed, about 1" long, rather longer than the stamens; berry pale red, speckled, about 2" in diameter. In moist woods and thickets, Newfoundland to the Northwest Territory, south to North Carolina, Tennessee, Iowa and South Dakota. Ascends to 5000 ft. in Virginia. Cowslip. Bead-ruby. One-blade. May-July. I8I2. 5. DISPORUM Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. 1: 331. [Prosartes Don, Ann. Nat. Hist. 4: 341. 184a] More or less pubescent herbs with slender rootstocks, branching stems, scaly below, leafy above, and alternate somewhat inequilateral sessile or clasping leaves, the flowers ter- minal, drooping, whitish or greenish yellow, solitary or few in simple umbels. Perianth of 6 narrow equal separate deciduous segments. Stamens 6, hypogynous; filaments filiform or somewhat flattened, longer than the anthers; anthers oblong, or linear, extrorse. Ovary 3-celled; ovules 2 or sometimes se
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