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occur in panicles ; in summer. Stem stout, very leafy to the top. 

 Leaves broadly oval and sheath-clasping. The panicle pyramidal, the 

 perianth yellowish-green. Swamps and low grounds. 



UVULARIA 



Flowers perfect and terminal. Style 3-cleft to below the middle. 

 Stems leafy and round. Leaves perfoliate. (Name from the 

 flowers hanging like the uvula or palate.) 



U. perfoliata, BELLWORT. Perianth narrowly bell-shaped, lily-like. 

 Rootstock short and roots fleshy. The yellowish drooping flowers 

 occur in spring, and are solitary on terminal peduncles. Glaucous 

 throughout. Leaves glabrous. Stamens shorter than the styles. Fre- 

 quent in rich woods. 



U. grandiflora, BELLWORT. Similar to foregoing but not glaucous. 

 Leaves whitish-pubescent beneath. The stamens are longer than the 

 styles. 



OAKESIA 



Stem angled. Leaves sessile and the flowers opposite them. 

 (Named for William Oakes, New England botanist, 1799 to 1848.) 



O. sessilifolia. The flowers resemble those of the bellwort. The 

 acutely angled stem arises from a slender creeping rootstock and 

 bears sessile clasping leaves, and I or 2 flowers, terminal on slender 

 peduncles. The leaves are acute at each end, glaucous beneath. Woods 

 and thickets. 



ALLIUM (ONION, GARLIC) 



Flowers perfect, umbellate. Style single, long. Plants with 

 a strong odor. Perianth of 6 sepals, often becoming dry and per- 

 sistent. The leaves and usually the scape-like stem arise from 

 a coated bulb. Flowers in a simple umbel, some or all of them 

 frequently replaced by bulblets. (Allium is the ancient latin 

 name of garlic.) 



A. Canadense, WILD GARLIC. Bulb small, bulb-coat somewhat 

 fibrous. The umbel densely bulbiferous, the flowers being few or 

 often none. Moist meadows. May and June. 



ERYTHRONIUM 



Flowers perfect. Perianth-segments distinct and petaloid. 

 Style single, long, and uncleft. Nearly stemless herbs with two 



