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(-val-lā're-ah.) (Bot.) A gen. of plants, O. Liliaceæ, containing only the Lily of the Valley, C. Converging majalis, the Muguet of the French, the May blume of the Germans, and the emblem of purity, modesty, and humility. It has a slender, irregular stalk, bearing from 8 to 12 small bell-shaped milk-white flowers symmetrically elegant in form, and of a delicate perfume. This stalk rises from the base of a pair of broadly lanceolate leaves, clasped together at the base by Converse, sheathing scales, and scarcely unfolded by the time the flowers are in perfection. It is an inhabitant of the woods in many parts of our Southern States. [s. 224]