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— Banks of Seneca lake, N. Y., W. to Ohio, Lock 1 and Wis., Lapham ! 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-Jiawered 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. scHJENOPRASUM. Civcs. — Scapc equaling the round, subulate leaves. — 

 Gr. fxo'>">f> ^ rush, and npaaov, a leek. The leaves resemble rush-leaves, Jn. 



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

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

 small, fistulous leaves, and seldom flowers. July. 



8. A. PORRUM. Leek. — >S'/. compressed, leafy; Ivs. sheathing at base; sta. tri- 

 cuspidale. — 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. 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. PROLTFERUM. — >S'ca;7e fistulous, twistcd ; Zr5. fistulous ; umbels hvlhi^ev- 

 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. — Sca^^e fistulous, swelling towards the base, 

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

 Native of Hungar5^ 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. opvi^os, 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 

 iiaked, racemose or corymbose. 



O, l-.mbeij.atum, Slar-of-nclhlchem. — Fh. corymbose; ped. longer than 

 bracts; ^/. subulate.— 7|. From England, but naturalized in many parts of this 

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

 near a foot high. Flowers few, in a kind of loo.se corymb. Petals and sepals 

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



9. HYACINTHUS. 



Hyarinthufl of Grecian fable, wu.s killed by Zephyms. anil transformed into this flower. 



Perianth subglobose or campanulatc, regular, G-clcft ; 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.— iYa/ir« of 

 the Levant. 



H. on\K^T\\As.— Perianth funnel-form, half G-clcft, vcntricosc at the 

 ba.se.— -H. 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, th,ck bearing a den.se, thyi-soid raceme of numerous blue flowers. 

 A plant peculiarly adapted to parlor eultivation in l)ulb gla.s.scs. 

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