Hyacintiius. CLIII. LILIACEyE. 561 



— Banks of Seneca lake, N. Y., W. to Ohio, I^ckl and Wis., Laphaml Bulb 

 6 — 8" diam. Scape mostly 4-an^'k'd, .sinootli, slender, 15— '24' high, recurved 

 at top. Umbel 1*2 — 'JO-tiowered. Pedicels 7 — 8" long. Flowers rose-colored. 

 Ovary G-toolhed, becoming a roundish, 3-secded capsule. July. 



5. A. TuiKi.uKUM. Pursh. l\u'-fltni'trcd Ijcck. M<mntain Lcck. 

 Scape naked, terete, slmrter than the leaves; lis. lanceulate, veined; um- 

 bel lew-flowered. — In shady woods on the high mountains ol" Pennsylvania, 

 Pursh. May, June. 



G. A. scHiKNoPKAsuM. C'lvcs. — Scapc equaling the round, subulate leaves. — 

 Gr. s^otvos, a rush, and npacrov, a leek. The leaves resemble rush-leaves. Jn. 



7. A. AscAi.oNicuM. Shallot. — Scape terete; Ivs. subulate; uvibd globo.se; 

 sta. trieusjnilaie. — Native about Ascalon, Palestine. It has asoboliferous bulb, 

 small, listulous leav^es, and seldom flowers. July. 



8. A. poiuuM. Leek. — SI. 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; 5/. leafy, bulbiferous ; 

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

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

 2f high. Flowers small, white. Used as seasoning and sometimes in medi- 

 cine, July. 



10. A. PRorjFEuuM. — S'crt'/;<? fistulous, twisted ; Zr5. fistulous ; 'M7nZ»<?Zs bulbifer- 

 ous and proliferous ; 5/^. tricuspidate, the middle point anlheriferous. — A curi- 

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

 bulbs among, or instead of, the Avhite flowers. July. 



11. A. Cepa. Common Onion. — S'c^/;?^ fistulous, swelling towards the base, 

 longer than the terete, fistulous leaves. — (g) 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. 



8. ornithogAlum. 



Gr. opvt%s, a bird, ya\a, milk; why so called is not obvious. 



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

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

 naked., racemose or corymbose. 



O. UMBELLATUM. Slar-of-Belklchcm. — Fh. corymbose ; ped. longer than 

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

 country. Leaves linear and narrow, emarginate, 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. HYACINTHUS. 



Hyacinthus 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 G-cleft, ventricose at the 

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

 tivated. Leaves thick, linear-lanceolate, 3 — 5' long. Scape twice as long as 

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

 A plant peculiarly adapted to parlor cidtivation in bulb glas.ses. 

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