550 CLIIl. LILIACE^. Allium. 



stigma simple, villous, small. — % An ornamental genus, natives of the 

 old world. Lvs. radical. Scafe corymbose. 



1. H. FULVA. Common Dan/ Lily. — I,i'5. linear-lanceolate, carinate ; pet. db- 

 tuse, wavy ; veins of sep. branched.— Native of the Levant, natura^zed in some 

 parts of this country. A well known, showy, border flower. I^eaves very nu- 

 merous, mostly radical, an inch wide and a foot or more long. Scape round, 

 thick, naked, smooth, branching, 3f high. Flowers very large, liliaceous, of a 

 tawny red. Stj^le striate. July, f 



2. H. FLAVA. Yellow Day Lily. — Lvs. broad-linear, carinate ; segments flat, 

 acute ; veins of the sepals undivided. — Native of Siberia. A foot high. Flowers 

 a bright yellow, much smaller than those of H. fulva. Scape branching. Jl. f 



3. H. Japonica. Mliite Day Lily. — Lvs. cordate, ovate, acuminate ; fis. in- 

 fundibuliform. — A fine species' from Japan. Leaves as large as the hand, very 

 smooth, on long, radical petioles. Flowers large, white, on a scape a foot high. 

 June. ■)• 



6. POLYANTHES. 



Gr. iroXver, many, av^oi ; the flowers of the plant being numeroua. 



Perianth funnel-form, incurved ; filaments inserted into the throat ; 

 ovary at the bottom of the tube. — % 



P. TUBEROSA. Tuberose. — Dvs. linear-lanceolate; pet. oblong. — A fine parlor 

 plant, native of Ceylon. Stems bulbous at base with tuberous branches. Scape 

 ecaly, 2 — 3f high, with alternate, large, white, regular flowers of a delicious 

 tragrance which is most powerful at evening. Aug. Sept. f 



Tribe 3. SCILtiEJE. — Bulbous. Flowers usually smaller than ia the 

 preceding. Integument of the seed black and brittle. 

 7. ALLIUM. 



Celtic all, hot or burning. 



Flowers in a dense umbel, with a membranous, 2-leaved spathe ; 

 perianth deeply 6-parted, segments mostly spreading, ovate, the 3 

 inner somewhat smaller ; ovary angular ; stigma acute ; capsule 3- 

 lobed. — Strong-scented, bulbous plants. Lvs. mostly radical. Umbeo 

 on a scape. 



1. A. TRicoccuM. Ait. Lance-leaved Garlic. 



Scape terete ; lvs. lanceolate, oblong, flat, smooth ; nmhel globose ; seed soli- 

 tary in each cell of the 3-celled capsule. — %. A strong-scented plant, common 

 in damp woods, N. H. to Va. and to ill. Bulb oblong, acuminate. Leaves 5 — 8' 

 long, an inch or more wide, acute, tapering into a petiole, all withering and 

 disappearing before the opening of the flowers. Scape a foot or more high, 

 bearing a thin, 2-leaved, deciduous spathe at top, with an umbel of 10 — 12 white 

 flowers. June, July. 



2. A. Canadense. Canadian Garlic, 



Scape terete ; lvs. linear ; um1)cl capitate, bulbiferous. — %. In woods. Leaves 

 radical, | as long as the scape, smooth, nearly flat above. Scape 12 — 18' high, 

 round, smooth, bearing a spathe of 2 ovate, acute bracts at the top, with a head 

 ol bulbs and flowers. The bulbs are sessile, each furnished with a bract be- 

 neath, and among them are a few whitish flpwers on slender pedicels. June. 



3. A. vineale. Croio Garlic. 



St. slender, with a few leaves; caidine lvs. terete, fistulous; iimbel bulbi- 

 ferous; sta. exsert -Jil. alternately tricuspidate, the middle point bearing the 

 anther. — % Meadows, Mid. and W. States. Leaves 6 — 12' long. Scape 1 — 2f 

 high, bearing a spathe of 2 small bracts at top, and an umbel of flowers with 

 which bulbs are sometimes intermixed. Perianth purple. June, July. ^ 



4. A. CERNDUM. Roth. Nodding Garlic. 



&a;)e angular ; lvs. linear, flat," very long; umbel cernuous; sta. simple. 



