B.YAcrNTncs. 'CLIII. LlLIACEiE, 5M 



—Banks of Seneca lake, N. Y., W. to Ohio, Lock Land Wis., Lapham! Bulb 

 ij — 6" diam. Scape mostly 4-angled, smooth, slender, 15 — 24' high, recurved 

 at top. Umbel 12 — 20-flowered. Pedicels 7 — S" long. Flowers rose-colored. 

 Ovary 6-toothed, becoming a roundish, 3-seeded capsule. July. 



5. A. TRiFLORUM. Pursh. Pew-fiowered heck. Mountain Le^lc. 



Scape naked, terete, shorter than the leaves; Ivs. lanceolate, veined; umr- 

 bel few-flowered. — In shady woods on tlie high mountains of Peuns3'lvania, 

 pursL May, June. 



G. A. scH.ENOPRASUM. Civcs. — Scape equaling the round, subulate leaves. — 

 Gr. s;^;o(fo^, a rush, and Trpacov, a leek. The leaves resemble rush-leaves. Jn: 



7. A. AscALONicuM. Shallot . — Scape terete ; Ivs. subulate ; umbel globose ; 

 sta. tricuspidate. — Native about Ascaloa, Palestine. It has asoboliferous bulb, 

 small, fistulous leaves, and seldom flowers. July. 



8. A. PORRUM. Lcck.^-S!^ compressed, leafy ; Ivs. sheathing at base ; sta. tri- 

 cuspidate. — Native of Switzerland. Root bearing a scaly, cylindrical bulb. 

 Stem 2f high, bearing long, linear, alternate, sheathing leaves, and at the top, 

 a. large umbel of small, white flowers. July. 



9. A. SATIVUM. Common Garlic. — Bulb compound; st. leaf}', bulbiferous^ 

 sta. tricuspidate. — Native of Sicily. The bulb is composed of several smaller 

 ^.nes surrounded by a common membrane, acrid and very strong-scented. Stem 

 yf high. Flowers small, white. Used as seasoning and sometimes iu medi- 

 cine. July. 



10. A. PROLiFERUM. — Scff/Jc fistulous, twistcd ; ;i:s. fistulous ; umbeWbViVaikx- 

 ous and proliferous; sta. tricuspidate, the middle point antheriferous. — A curi- 

 ous species, native of the W. Indies. Scape 2 — 3f high, producing several 

 bulbs aniong, or instead of, the Avhite floAvers. July. 



11. A. Cepa. Common Onion-. — Scape fistulous, swelling towards the base, 

 longer than the terete, fistulous leaves. — (§) Cep, in the Celtic, signifies a head. 

 Native of Hungary. The root bears a tunicated bulb, compressed, or round, 

 or oblong in figure. The scape, which appears the second year, is 3 — 4f high, 

 straight, smooth, stout, bearing at top a large, round umbel of greenish-white 

 flowers. Universally cultivated for the kitchen, and its peculiar merits as a 

 pot-herb are, no doubt, well known to our readers. Culture has produced nu- 

 merous varieties, 



a ornithogAlum. 



G)'. opviSos, a bird, yaXa, milk; why so called is not obvious. 



Periantli deeply 6-parted, spreading above the middle ; filaments 

 dilated at the base ; capsule roundish, angular. — Lvs. radical. Scape 

 naked.) racemose or corymbose. 



O. UMBELI.AT0M. StoT-of-Bethlelierii. — Pis. corymbose; peel, longer than 

 bracts; fil. subulate. — % From England, but naturalized in many parts of this 

 country. Leaves linear and narrow, eraarginate, as long as the scape. Scape 

 near a" foot high. Flowers few, in a kind of loose corymb. Petals and sepals 

 white, beautifully marked with a longitudinal green stripe on the outside. May. 



9."HYACINTtlUS. 



Hs-acinthus of Grecian fable, -was killed by Zephyrus, and transformed into this flower. 



Perianth subglobose or campanulate, regular, 6-cleft ; 3 nectarifer- 

 ous pores at the top of the ovary ; stamens issuing from the middle 

 of the segments ; cells of the capsule about 2-seeded. — Natives of 

 the. Levant. 



H. ORiENTALis. — Perianth funnel-form, half 6-cleft, ventrico.se at the 

 base. — % The hyacinth is a well knoAvn, splendid flower, long prized and cul- 

 tivated. Leaves thick, linear-lanceolate, 3 — 3' long. Scape twice as long as 

 the leaves, thick, bearing a dense, thyrsoid raceme of numerous blue flowers. 

 A plant peculiarly adapted to parlor cultivation in bulb glasses. 

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