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margins often somewhat bristly-ciliate or spinulose. (S. tamuoides, Man.; 

 ])r()l)iiljly not L.) — Thickets; Nantucket, Mass. (Z.. L. Dame); N. J. to FLa., 

 west to 111., Mo., and Tex. 

 -I- -I- ■<- Peduncle 2-4 times the lenr/th of the petiole; leaves ample (3-5' lonf/), 



thin or thinnish, green both sides; berries black; stem terete and branddets 



nearlfi so. 



8. S. hispida, Muhl. Rootstock cylindrical, elongated ; stem (climhing 

 high) helow densely beset with long and weak blackish bristl// prickles, the floW' 

 ering branchlets mostly naked; leaves ovate and the larger heart-shaped, 

 pointed, slightly rough-margined, membranaceous and deciduous ; peduncles 

 H-2' long; sepals lanceolate, almost 3" long. — Moist thickets, Conn, to Va., 

 west to Minn, and Tex. June. 



9. S. Pseudo-China, L. Rootstock tuberous ; stems and branches un- 

 armed, or with A'ery few weak prickles ; leaves ovate-heart-shaped, or on the 

 branchlets ovate-oblong, cuspidate-pointed, often rough-ciliate, becoming firm 

 in texture; peduncles flat (2-3' long). — Dry or sandy soil, N.J. to Fla., 

 west to S. Ind. and Mo. July. 



* * Leaves varijing from oblong -lanceolate to linear, narrowed at base into a short 

 petiole, 3-5-nei'ved, shining above, paler or glaucous beneath, man;/ without 

 tendrils; peduncles short, seldom exceeding the petioles, terete; the und)els 

 sometimes panicled ; branches terete, unarmed. 



10. S. lanceolata, L. Leaves thinnish, rather deciduous, ovate-lanceo- 

 late or lance-oblong ; stigmas 3 ; berries dull red. — Kich woods and margins 

 of swamps, Va. to Fla., west to Ark. and Tex. June. 



11. S. laurifolia, L. Leaves thick and coriaceous, evergreen, yaryingivom 

 oblong-lanceolate to linear (2^-5' long) ; stigmas solitarg and ovarg l-celled ; 

 berries black when ripe, 1-seeded, maturing in the second year. — Pine-barrens, 

 N. J. to Fla., west to Ark. and La. July, Aug. 



2. ALLIUM, L. Onion. Garlic. 



Perianth of 6 entirely colored sepals, which are distinct, or united at the very 

 base, 1-nerved, often becoming dry and scarious and more or less jjersistent; 

 the 6 filaments awl-shaped or dilated at base. Style persistent, but jointed upon 

 the very short axis of the ovary, thread-like ; stigma simple. Capsule lobed, 

 loculicidal, 3-valved, with 1-2 ovoid-kidney-sliaped amphitropous or campylo- 

 tropous black seeds in each cell. — Strong-scented and pungent steraless herbs ; 

 the leaves and scape from a coated bulb ; flowers in a simple umbel, some of 

 them frequently changed to bulblets; spathe scarious, 1-2-valved. (The 

 ancient Latin name of the Garlic.) 



§ 1. Bulbs cespitose, narrowly oblong and crowning a rhizome ; coats membranous. 

 * Leaves (2 or 3) elliptic-lanceolate ; ovules solitarij in each cell. 



1. A. tricoccum, Ait. (Wild Leek.) Scape naked (4- 1 2' high from 

 clustered pointed bulbs, 2' long), bearing an erect many-flowered umbel ; leaves 

 5-9' long, 1 - 2' wide ; sepals oblong (greenish white), equalling the nearly 

 distinct filaments ; capsule strongly 3-lobed. — Rich Avoods, W. N. Fng. to Minn, 

 and Iowa, south in the mountains to N. C. Leaves appearing in early spring 

 and dying before the flowers are developed. 



