60 AUT. BOT. 
3bread, petiol 2 or 3 inches, flowers white 
pretty large, capsule commonly with lobes or 
cells unequal. t 
437, Geb. geminatum Raf. herb, p. 64. fol. 
lin. *ongiss. lato planis non striatis, obt, scapo 
equante fif. bifloro, spatha bivalvis eq. subul. 
lanceol. pedicéllis 2 equalib. sepalis ianceol. 
stam. inclusis—W est Kentucky semipedal,slen- 
der, fl. white, deemed M. striatum by Torrey, 
totally unlike the African sp. reduced to mini- 
mum of umbellate flowers. 
438, Geb. stenium Raf. herb. p. 65. fol. filif, 
planiusc. obt. scapo breviorib. scapo tereto,umb, 
sepe 3flora, ped. eq. filif. spatha 3valvis ovato- 
lanc. acum. sepalis lanceol. aeutis ad stam. lon- 
gior—Illinois, fl. white vernal, scape pedal, 
leaves half size. 
439, Geb. tenellum Raf. fol. fili£. planiusc. 
obt. seapo breviorib. scapo filif. substriatum ; 
umbella 2-4flora, pedic. filif. ineq. erectis, spa- 
tha bivalyis brevis lanceol. oq. obtusis, sepalis 
obl. ellipt. subobtusis stam. subequante—F lor- 
ida, akin to the 2 last and also to G. sulcatum, 
but different from all, very slender 6 to 9 inches 
high, sometimes only 2 fl, as in geminatum, but 
unequal in length, white: deemed a N. sp. by 
Baldwin. All our narrow leaved and few flow- 
ed sp. have been mingled by our botanists with 
African sp. as Allium striatum, fragrans, ino- 
dorum, and all perhaps included in A. arnitho- 
galoides of Walter, seo 443 and 444. 
440, Geb. proliferum Raf. scaposum, fol. lin, 
angustissimis planis nervosis obt, scapo tereto 
longior; umbella pauciflora sepe bulbo 
ferens in spatha centralis bivalvis, spatha ext. 
reflexa bivalvis, ovata pedic. ineq. flexuosis, se- 
palis obl. obt. stam. equante—Missouri, deemed 
