April, 1913.] Liliales of Ohio. 113 



1. Erythronium americanum Ker. Yellow Dog-tooth Lily. 

 A bulbous herb with green leaves mottled with purple and white; 

 perianth yellow; style club-shaped; stigmas 3, united. In woods 

 and thickets. General. 



2. Erythronium albidum Nutt. White Dog-tooth Lily. 

 Leaves somewhat narrower than the preceding species, not so 

 much spotted; perianth white, pinkish or bluish-pink; stigmas 

 spreading. General. 



4. Hemerocallis L. Day-Hly. 

 Showy perennials with fiberous, fleshy roots, and two-ranked, 

 linear leaves at the base of the tall scapes. Scape many flowered, 

 each flower having a bract and remaining open but for one day; 

 perianth funnel-form, the lobes longer than the tube; stamens 

 united with the tube, anthers introrse, filaments long and thread- 

 like; style long, stigma simple. 



p% 1. Hemerocallis fulva L. Common Day-lily. Scape 3-6 

 feet tall; leaves channeled; flowers 6-18, short pedicelled, tawny 

 orange. Escaped. General. 



5. Allium L. Onion. Leek. Garhc. 

 Herbs with alliaceous odor, arising from solitary or clustered 

 bulbs. Leaves narrowly linear, or rarely lanceolate; scape simple 

 and erect; flowers small, in umbels; perianth white, pink, purple, 

 green; parts distinct, or united at the very base; style persistent, 

 and thread-like; capsule lobed; seeds black. 



1. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, not present at the time of flowering; capsule 

 strongly 3-lobed. A. tricoccnm. 



1. Leaves linear or elongated, present at the time of flowering. 2. 



2. Leaves hollow, terete or nearly so. 3. 



2. Leaves solid. 4. 



3. Stem leafy to above the middle; leaves thread-like, grooved down the 



upper side. A. vineale. 



3. Stem leafy only near the base; leaves usually broad, not definitely 



grooved, flowers white. A. cepa. 



4. Scape terete, not angular, umbels erect, with bulblets, ovulary not 



crested. A. canade?ise. 

 4. Scape angular, umbels nodding without bulblets, ovulary and capsule 

 crested. A. cernmim. 



1. Allium tricoccum Ait. Wild Leek. An herb with clus- 

 tered ovoid bulbs and with oblong lanceolate leaves, withering 

 before flowering time. Leaves 6-12 in. long; tapering into a long 

 petiole; scape 4-6 in. tall; umbels bracteolate, many flowered, 

 erect; flowers white; perianth segments oblong, of about the same 

 length as the filaments; capsule 3-lobed. In woods. West 

 central part of the state to Franklin and Delaware. Also in 

 Lorain, Cuyahoga and Medina. 



2. Allium vineale L. Field Garlic. A slender herb with a 

 stem 1-3 feet high sheathed by the bases of the leaves below the 



