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5. S. hispida Muhl. Rootstock cylindrical, elongated: stem (climbing high) 
densely beset with long and weak blackish bristly prickles below, the flowering 
branchlets mostly naked: leaves ovate (the larger cordate), pointed, slightly rough- 
margined, membranaceous and deciduous: peduncles 3 to 5 cm. long: sepals lanceo- 
late (5 mm, long).—Moist thickets, extending into Texas from the cast. 
++ Leaves oblong-lanceolate to linear, 3 or 5-nerved, shining above: branches round, 
unarmed. 
6. S. lanceolata L. Leaves thinnish, rather deciduous, ovate-lanceolate or lance- 
olate-oblong: stigmas 3: berries dull red.—Rich woods, extending into Texas from 
the Southern States. 
2. ALLIUM L. (ONION. GARLIC.) 
Strong-seented pungent stemless herbs, with leaves and scape from 
a coated bulb, umbellate flowers (frequently changing to bulbs), scari- 
ous 1 to 3-valved spathe, colored perianth with one-nerved distinct 
(or united at base) segments, persistent but jointed filiform style, 
simple stigma, and lobed pod with 1 or 2 ovoid-reniform black seeds 
in each cell. 
* Bulbs cespitose, narrowly oblong, crowning a rhizome: coats membranaceous. 
1. A.cernuum Roth. (WiLp ONION.) Scape naked, angular (1.5 to6dm. high), 
nodding at apex, bearing a loose or drooping few to many-flowered umbel: leaves 
linear, flat, sharply keeled, 3 dm. long: perianth-segments oblong-ovate, rose-color: 
stamens and style exserted: pod 6-crested.—Moist places, throughout the State. 
** Bulbs mostly solitary, not rhizomatous: leaves narrowly linear, flat, or channeled, 
+ Bulb-coats more or less fibrous: leaves several. 
++ Pod not crested: spathes usually 3-valved. 
2. A. Canadense Kalm. (WILD GARLIC.) Scape 3 dm.or more high: bulb-coats 
somewhat fibrous: umbels densely bulbiferous or few-flowered: flowers on slender 
pedicels, white or pinkish; segments narrowly lanceolate, obtusish, equaling or 
exceeding the stamens.—Extending westward to central Texas. ; 
3. A. mutabile Michx. Scape 3 to5 dm. high: bulbs-densely and coarsely fibrous- 
coated: umbel rarely bulbiferous: flowers white to rose-color: segments thin and 
lax in fruit, ovate to narrowly lanceolate, obtusish or acute, 4 longer than the stamens, 
(A, reticulatum, var. y Watson.) — Gravelly hills, from central to western Texas, along 
the Rio Grande. 
4. A. Nuttallii Watson. Scape low (1 to 1.5dm. high): bulb usually smaller, very 
fibrous: pedicels shorter: perianth-segments usually broader, rather rigid in fruit, 
acute or acuminate, rose-color or white (4; mutabile, var. 8 Watson.)—Throughout 
the State. 
++++ Pod crested: spathe usually 2-valved. 
5. A. reticulatum Fraser. Scape 1 to 2 din. high: bulbs densely and coarsely 
fibrous-coated: umbels rarely bulbiferous: pedicels short: perianth-segments ovate 
to narrowly lanceolate, thin and lax in fruit, 4 longer than the stamens.—Along 
streams throughout the State. 
++ Bulb-coats not fibrous, the outer more or less reticulated. 
++ Leaves 2 to 4: spathes 2-valved. 
= Scapes tall, 
6. A. scaposum Benth. Scape 3 dm. or more high: outer bulb-scales dark, with 
coarse rectilinear reticulatious: umbels loose, rather few-flowered: perianth-seg- 
