550 CLUL LILIACEZE. ALLIVM. 
stigma simple, villous, small—% An ornamental genus, natives of the 
ald world. Lvs. radical. Scape corymbose. | 
1. H. purva. Common Day Lily.—Lvs. linear-lanceolate, carinate ; pet. ob- 
tuse, wavy ; veins of sep. branched.—Native of the Levant, naturalized in some 
parts of this country. A well known, showy, border flower. Leaves very nu- 
merous, mostly radical, an inch wide and a foot or more long. Scape round, 
thick, naked, smooth, branching, 3f high. Flowers very large, liliaceous, of a 
tawny red. Style striate. July. + 
2. H. rrava. Yellow Day Lily.—Lvs. broad-linear, carinate ; segments flat, 
acute ; veins of the sepals wndivided.—Native of Siberia. A foothigh. Flowers 
a bright yellow, much smaller than those of H. fulva. Scape branching. Jl. + 
3. H. Japonica. White Day Lily.—Lwvs. cordate, ovate, acuminate ; fls. in- 
fundibuliform.—A fine species from Japan. Leaves as large as the hand, very 
auoerh, on long, radical petioles. Flowers large, white, on a scape a foot high. 
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6. POLYANTHES. 
G7. rodve, many, avSos ; the flowers of the plant being numerous, 
Perianth funnel-form, incurved ; filaments inserted into the throat ; 
eyary at the bottom of the tube.—% 
P. tuBerosa. Tuberose.—Lws. linear-lanceolate; pet. oblong.—aA fine parlor 
plant, native of Ceylon. Stems bulbous at base with tuberous branches. Scape 
scaly, 2—3f high, with alternate, large, white, regular flowers of a delicious 
fragrance which is most powerful at evening. Aug. Sept. f — 
Trize 3, SCILLEX.—Bulbous, Flowers usually smaller than in the 
preceding. Integument of the seed black and brittle, - 
7 ALLIUM. 
Celtic a/], hot or burning. * 
Flowers in a dense umbel, with a membranous, 2-leayed spathe ; 
perianth deeply 6-parted, segments mostly spreading, ovate, the 3 
inner somewhat smaller; ovary angular; stigma acute; capsule 3- 
lobed.—Strong-scented, bulbous plants. Lvs. mostly radical. Umbel 
en a. scape. 
1. A. TRIcoccum. Ait. LEance-leaved Garlic. 
Scape terete ; lvs. lanceolate, oblong, flat, smooth ; wmbel globose; seed soli- 
tary in each cell of the 3-celled capsule.—2 A strong-scented plant, common 
in damp woods, N. H. to Va.andtolll. Bulb oblong,acuminate. Leaves 5—8’ 
long, an inch or more wide, acute, tapering into a petiole, all withering and 
disappearing before the opening of the flowers. Scape a foot or more high, 
bearing a thin, 2-leaved, deciduous spathe at top, with an umbel of 10—12 white 
flowers. June, July. 
2. A. CANADENSE. Canadian Garlic. 
Scape terete ; lvs. linear ; wmbel capitate, bulbiferous.—2 In woods. Leaves 
radical, 3 as long as the scape, smooth, nearly flat above. Scape 12—18' high, 
round, smooth, bearing a spathe of 2 ovate, acute bracts at the top, with a head 
of bulbs and flowers. The bulbs are sessile, each furnished with a bract be- 
neath, and among them are a few whitish flowers on slender pedicels. June. 
3. A. VINEALE. Crow Garlic. 
St. slender, with a few leaves; cauline lvs. terete, fistulous ; wmbel bulbi- 
ferous; sia. exsert; fil. alternately tricuspidate, the middle point bearing the 
anther.—2| Meadows, Mid. and W. States. Leaves 6—12/long. Scape 1—2f 
high, bearing a spathe of 2 small bracts at top, and an umbel of flowers with 
which bulbs are sometimes intermixed. Perianth purple. June, July. § 
4, A. cernuum. Roth.. Nodding Garlic. we, 
Scape angular; évs. linear, flat, very long; wmbcl eernuous; sta. simple. 
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