Strep top us (strep top us), )

[NL. (F. A. Michaux, 1803), so called from the abruptly bent flower-stalk; (Gr. στρεπτός, twisted, + πούς = Ε. foot.] A genus of monocotyledonous plants, of the order Liliaceæ and tribe Polygon ateæ. It is characterized by nodding solitary or twin axillary flowers, divided into six more or le spreading segments, with a filiform or columnar style which is three-cleft at the apex. There are 4 species, natives of Europe, North America, and temperate parts of Asia. They are rather delicate plants, from a short and densely fiber-bearing or a a creeping rootstock, with a simple or sparingly branched stem, bearing numerous ovate or lanceolate alternate se ile or clasping leaves. The small rose-colored or whitish flowers hang upon slender recurved or reflexed 'peduncles, followed by small roundish berries with numerous pale oblong or curving striate seeds. They are known by the name twisted - stalk, translating the genus name. S. amplexifolius is found in Europe, and, together with S. rose us, in northern North America, and southward in the mountains. strep to spondyl i an (strep" tō-spon-dil'i-an), a. Same as strep to spondylous. strep to spondylous (strep-to-spon'di-lus), a. [ versed, or supposed to be so, as in the genus IMG:content-2268.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-2269.jpg:[blocks in formation]