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

 6—8" diam. Scape mostly 4-angled, smooth, slender, 15—24' high, recurved 

 at top. Umbel 12— 20-flowered. Pedicels 7—8" long. Flowers rose-colored. 

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



5. A. TRiFLORUM. Pursh. Few-fiowered Leek. Mountain Leek. 



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

 bel few-flowered.— In shady woods on the high mountains of Pennsylvania, 

 Pursh. May, June. 



6. A. scHiENOPRAsuM. Cives. — Scape equaling the round, subulate leaves. — 

 Gr. rxo'^o^) ^ rush, and irpaaov, a leek. The leaves resemble rush-leaves. Jn. 



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

 sta. tricuspidate. — Native about Ascalon, Palestine. It has a soboliferous bulb, 

 small, fistulous leaves, and seldom flowers. July. 



8. A. PORRUM. Leek. — St. 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. Comvion Garlic. — Bulb compound; st. leafy, bulbiferous; 

 sta. 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. PROLiFERUM. — Scapc fistulous, twisted ; Ivs. fistulous ; umbels bulbifer- 

 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 among, or instead of, the white flowers. July. 



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

 longer than the terete, fistulous leav^es. — ^ Cep, in the Celtic, signifies a head. 

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

 or oblong in figiu-e. The scape, which appears the second 3^ear, 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, opvi^os, a bird, yaXa, milk; why so called is not obv-ious. 



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

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

 naked, racemose or coryinhose. 



O. u\ffiELi,ATUM. Star-of- Bethlehem. — Fls. 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 Zephyriis, 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 

 tJie Levant. 



H. 0RIENTALI3. — Perianth funnel-form, half 6-cleft, ventriccse at the 

 base. — 1\. 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, ihyrsoid raceme of numerous blue flowers. 

 A plant peculiarlv adapted to parlor cultivation in bulb glasses. 

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