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LILIACEJE. (LILY FAMILY.) 
like. Pod 3-angled, 3-valved, with several black roundish seeds 
in each cell. — Scape and linear leaves from a coated bulb : the 
flowers in a simple raceme, mostly bracted. (The ancient name.) 
1. S* CSClllenta, Ker. (Eastern Quamash. Wild Hya¬ 
cinth.) Leaves long and linear, keeled; raceme elongated; bracts 
solitary, longer than the pedicels; stigma minutely 3-cleft; pod tri¬ 
angular, the cells several-seeded. (Phaldngium, Nutt.) — Moist prai¬ 
ries and river-banks, Ohio to Wisconsin and westward. May. — Bulb 
onion-like, eaten by the Indians. Scape 1° high. Sepals widely 
spreading, pale blue, 3-nerved, Jong. 
8. Allium, L. Onion. Garlic. 
Perianth of 6 entirely colored sepals, which are distinct or unit¬ 
ed at the very base, I-nerved, becoming dry and more or less per¬ 
sistent : the 6 filaments awl-shaped or dilated at their base. Style 
thread-like : stigma simple. Pod lobed, 3-valved, with 1 or 2 
ovoid-kidney-shaped campylotropous black seeds in each cell. — 
Strong-scented and pungent stemless herbs; the leaves and scape 
from a coated bulb : flowers in a simple umbel, some of them fre¬ 
quently changed to bulblets ; spathe 1 - 2-valved. (The ancient 
Latin name of the Garlic.) 
* Umbel often densely bulb-bearing , icith or tcithout flowers. 
1. A* vineale, L. (Field Garlic.) Scape slender, clothed 
with the sheathing bases of the leaves below the middle (1°-3P 
high); leaves terete, hollow, slender, channelled above; filaments muck 
dilated, the alternate ones deleft, the middle division anther-bearing. 
— Moist meadows and fields, naturalized and troublesome near the 
coast. June. — Flowers rose-color and green. 
2. A* Cana dense, Kalm. (Wild Meadow Garlic.) Scape 
leafy only at the base (1° high); leaves narroicly linear, flattish; um¬ 
bel few-flowered ; filaments simple , dilated below. — Moist meadows, 
&c. May, June. —Flowers pale rose-color, pedicelled ; or a head of 
bulbs. 
* * Umbel bearing only flowers. 
3. A. cerillium, Roth. (Wild Onion.) Scape naked, angu¬ 
lar (1°-2P high), often nodding at the apex, bearing a loose or droop¬ 
ing many-flowered umbel; leaves linear , elongated, sharply keeled; 
sepals oblong-ovate, acute (rose-color), much shorter than the simple 
slender filaments ; ovary 6-toothed at the summit.— Steep banks, W. 
New York to Wisconsin and southward. Aug. 
4. A. tricoccuni, Ait. (Wild Leek.) Scape naked (9' 
high), bearing an erect many-flowered umbel; leaves lance-oblong or 
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