LILY FAMILY. 415 
g. Allium reticulatum Don. Fraser’s 
Wild Onion. (Fig. 1000.) 
Allium reticulatum Nutt. Fraser’s Cat. Name only. 
1813. 
Allium reticulatum Don, Mem. Wern. Soc. 6: 36. 
1826-31. 
Similar to the preceding species, the bulb rather 
larger, its coats prominently fibrous-reticulated. 
Scape 3/—10’ tall, slender; leaves usually less than 
1’ wide; bracts of the several-flowered umbel 
mostly 2, acuminate; pedicels slender, 3’/-6’’ long; 
flowers white or pink, 214’’-3’’ long; perianth- 
segments longer than the stamens, thin; capsule 
shorter than the perianth, each of its valves bearing 
2 short crests just below the summit. 
Assiniboia and South Dakota to New Mexico and 
Arizona. May-July. 
4. NOTHOSCORDUM Kunth, Enum. 4: 457. 1843. 
Scapose herbs, similar to the onions, but without alliaceous odor, with membranous- 
coated bulbs, narrowly linear basal leaves and small yellow or yellowish-green flowers in an 
erect terminal simple 2-bracted umbel. Perianth 6-parted to the base, withering-persistent, 
its segments I-nerved. Stamens 6, inserted on the bases of the perianth-segments; fila- 
ments filiform or subulate; anther-sacs introrsely dehiscent. Ovary sessile, 3-celled; ovules 
several in each cavity; style filiform, jointed near the base, but commonly persistent; stigma 
small, capitate. Capsule 3-lobed, loculicidal. Seeds angled or flattish, black. [Greek, 
signifying false garlic. ] 
About ro species, the following in the southern United States and Mexico, 8 or gin tropical and 
South America, 1 Chinese. 
1. Nothoscordum bivalve (L. ) Britton. 
Yellow False Garlic. (Fig. root.) 
Ornithogalum bivalve ,. Sp. Pl. 306. 1753. 
Allium ornithogaloides Walt. Fl. Car. 121. 1788. 
Allium striatum Jacq. Coll. Suppl. 51. 1796. 
Nothoscordum striatum Kunth, Enum. 4:459. 1843. 
Bulb globose, less than I’ -in diameter, its 
coats membranous. Leaves }4//-214/’ wide, 
flat, blunt or acutish, shorter than the scape 
or equalling it; bracts of the umbel lanceolate, 
acuminate, membranous, persistent; umbel 6- 
12-flowered; pedicels filiform, usually unequal, 
becoming rather rigid and 1/-2’ long in fruit; 
flowers 5//-6’’ long; perianth-segments thin, 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, longer than the sta- 
mens; capsule obovoid or somewhat depressed, 
obtusely 3-lobed, 2’’-3’’ high, the style as long 
or slightly longer. 
In sandy soil, Virginia to Tennessee and Ne- 
braska, south to Florida, Texas and Mexico. As- 
cends to 1500 ft. in Georgia. March-July. 
EP ANDROSTEPHIUM Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Sury. 218. 1859. 
Scapose herbs from a small membranous-coated corm. Leaves basal, narrowly linear. 
Flowers rather large, blue, in a terminal erect several-bracted umbel. Perianth funnelform, 
withering-persistent, the tube about as long as the 6 oblong lobes. Stamens 6, inserted on 
the throat of the perianth; filaments dilated, united to the middle or above into an erect 
crown-liketube with toothed lobes alternating with the linear-oblong anthers. Ovary ses- 
sile, 3-celled; ovules several in each cavity; style filiform; stigma 3-grooved. Capsule mem- 
branous, 3-angled, loculicidal. Seeds few, large, oval, black. [Greek, referring to the crown. ] 
Two'species, natives of the southwestern United States. 
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