SECTION V 

 PINK TO RED FLOWERS 



PINK GARLIC 



Allium ccniuum. Lily Family 



Bulbs clustered on a short rootstock, narrowly ovoid, with a long 

 neck. Stems: scape slender. Leaves: linear, channeled, or nearly flat. 

 Flowers: umbel many-flowered, nodding, subtended by two short decid- 

 uous bracts; perianth segments ovate, acute; stamens and style exserted. 



These clusters of tiny pink flowers, which grow on long 

 slender stalks that bend over abruptly at the top are charac- 

 teristically odorous, as may be readily understood, since 

 allium is the Latin for '' garlic." From ten to forty flowers 

 form the umbel upon each stalk, and both the awl-shaped 

 stamens and the style protrude far beyond the segments of 

 the perianth. 



The leaves are long and extremely narrow, in fact, grass- 

 like, being channeled or flat and terminating either in a 

 blunt or a fine point. 



PINK TWISTED-STALK 



Streptopiis roscus. Lily Family 



Stems: from a short stout rootstock covered with fibrous roots, simple 

 or sparingly branched. Leaves: lanceolate to ovate, abruptly acuminate, 

 sessile by a broad, rounded, clasping base, the margins finely ciliate. 

 Flowers: peduncled, segments of the perianth lanceolate, the tips spread- 

 ing. Fruit: a red oval berry. 



This plant is a near relation of S. ample. xifolius described 

 in the White to Green Section. It differs from the fore- 



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