364 LILIACEvE. 



Wet meadows. Can. to Car. May, June. %. — Bulb ovoid, small. Stem 

 1^18 inches high. Leaves very long and narrow. Flowers rose-colored. 



Canadian Garlic. 



5. A. tricoccum Ait. : leaves lance-oblong, flat, smooth ; umbel somewhat 

 crowded ; leafets of the perianth oblong, obtuse, about as long as the sta- 

 mens ; filaments simple, dilated downwards. 



Moist woods. N. Y. to Virg. June, July. %. — Bulb oblong-ovoid, rather 

 large. Scape about a foot high. Flowers white, in a globose umbel. Capsule 

 with the cells 1-seeded. Three-seeded Garlic. 



5. ORNITHOGALUM. Linn.— Stsu of Bethlehem. 

 (From the Greek opvii, opi^iBog, abird, and ya\a, milk; application unknown.) 

 Perianth deeply 6 -parted, spreading above. Stamens 6, hy- 

 pogynous ; the filaments dilated at base. Ovary superior. Cap- 

 sule roundish-angular, 3 -celled. Seeds few, roundish or angular, 

 black and rough. 



C. uvibellatum Linn. : corymb few-flowered ; peduncles longer than the 

 bracts ; filaments subulate. 



Wet meadows. N. Y. andPenn. May, June. 'Zi-. — BuK» small, ovoid. Scape 

 6 — 10 inches high, smooth. Leaves radical, linear, smooth. Flowers white in- 

 side, green with a white margin outside. Introduced from Europe. 



Common Star of Bethlehem. 



IV. WACHENDORFEiB. 



6. LOPHIOLA. ITer.—Lophiola. 



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(From the Greek Xoi^ta, a crest ; in allusion to its woolly perianth.). 

 Perianth 6 -parted, woolly, bearded within. Stamens 6. Fil- 

 aments naked. Anthers erect. Stigma simple. Capsule open- 

 ing at the summit. 



L. aurea Ker. Conostylis Artiericana Pursh. 



Sandy swamps. N. J. to Car. July. 11-. — Root creeping. Leaves radical, 

 grass-Like, ensiform, shorter than the erect scape which has 1 or 2 short leaves. 

 Flowers yellow, in a crowded corymb. Golden-crested Lophiola. 



V. ASPARAGE^. 



7. ASPARAGUS. Z/mw.— Asparagus. 

 (From the Greek atnrapayos, an esculent vegetable.') 

 Perianth 6 -parted, subcampanulate, the segments spreading 

 at the apex. • Stamens 6. Anthers peltate. Style very short. 



Berry 3-celled ; cells 2-seeded. 4 



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A. officinalis Linn. : unarmed ; stem herbaceous, erect, rounded, much 

 branched ; leaves setaceous, fasciculate and flexible ; peduncles jointed in 

 the middle. 



Gravelly shores, near salt water, N. Y. June. %—Stem 1—3 feet high. 



