Hyacintavs. - CLI. LILIACEA. 551 
—Banks of Seneca lake, N. Y., W. to Ohio, Lock! and Wis., Lapham! Bulb 
6—8’ diam. Scape mostly 4-angled, smooth, slender, 15—24/ high, recurved 
at top. Umbel 12—20-flowered. Pedicels 7—8’’ long. Flowers rose-colored. 
Ovary 6-toothed, becoming a roundish, 3-seeded capsule. July. 
5. A. TRIFLORUM. Pursh. Few-flowered Leek.. Mountain Leek. 
Scape naked, terete, shorter than the leaves; vs. lanceolate, veined ; wm- 
bel few-flowered.—In shady woods on the high mountains of Pennsylvania, 
Pursh. May, June. 
6. A. scHENOPRAsUM. Cives.—Scape equaling the round, subulate leavesi— 
Gr. sxowos, a rush, and zpacov, a leek. The leaves resemble rush-leaves. Jn. 
7. A. Ascatonicum. Shallot.—Scape terete; lvs. subulate; wmbel globose; 
sta. tricuspidate—Native about Ascalon, Palestine. It has asoboliferous bulb, 
small, fistulous leaves, and seldom flowers. July. 
8. A. porrum. Leek.—St. compressed, leafy ; vs. sheathing at base; sta. tri- 
cuspidate—Native of Switzerland. Root bearing a scaly, cylindrical bulb. 
Stem 2f high, bearing long, linear, alternate, sheathing leaves, and at the top, 
a large umbel of small, white flowers. July. 
9. A. sativum. Common Garlic—Bulb compound; st. leafy, bulbiferous ; 
sta. tricuspidate-—Native of Sicily. The bulb is composed of several smaller 
ones surrounded by a common membrane, acrid and very strong-scented. Stem 
Qf high. Flowers small, white. Used as seasoning and sometimes in medi- 
eine, July. 
10. A. PROLIFERUM.—Scape fistulous, twisted ; lvs. fistulous; wmbels bulbifer- 
ous and proliferous; sta. tricuspidate, the middle point antheriferous.—A curi- 
ous species, native of the W. Indies. Scape 2—3f high, producing several 
bulbs among, or instead of, the white flowers. July. 
11. A. Cepa. Common Onion.—Scape fistulous, swelling towards the base, 
longer than the terete, fistulous leaves.—@) Cep, in the Celtic, signifies a head. 
Wative of Hungary. The root bears a tunicated bulb, compressed, or round, 
or oblong in figure. The scape, which appears the second year, is 3—4f high, 
straight, smooth, stout, bearing at top a large, round umbel of greenish-white 
flowers. Universally cultivated for the kitchen, and its peculiar merits as a 
pot-herb are, no doubt, well known to our readers. Culture has produced nu- 
merous varieties. 
8. ORNITHOGALUM. 
Gr. opviSos, a bird, yaa, milk; why so called is not obvious. 
_Perianth deeply 6-parted, spreading above the middle; filaments 
dilated at the base ; capsule roundish, angular.—Lws. radical. Scape 
naked, racemose or corymbose. 
QO. UMBELLATUM.  Star-of-Bethlehkem—Fls. corymbose; ped. longer than 
bracts; ji. subulate—9| From England, but naturalized in many parts of this 
country. Leaves linear and narrow, emarginate, as long as the scape. Scape 
near a foot high. Flowers few, in a kind of loose corymb. Petals and sepals 
white, beautifully marked with a longitudinal green stripe on the outside. May. 
7 AY ABIN DEUS, 
Hyacinthus of Grecian fable, was killed by Zephyrus, and transformed into this flower. 
Perianth subglobose or campanulate, regular, 6-cleft; 3 nectarifer- 
ous pores at the top of the ovary; stamens issuing from the middle 
of the segments ; cells of the capsule about 2-seeded.— Natives of 
the Levant. 
H. orienTALIs.—Perianth funnel-form, half 6-cleft, ventriccse at the 
base.—2|. The hyacinth is a well known, splendid flower, long prized and cul- 
tivated. Leaves thick, linear-lanceolate, 3—5' long. Scape twice as long as 
the leaves, thick, bearing a dense, thyrsoid raceme of numerous blue flowers. 
A plant peculiarly adapted ta parlor cultivation in bulb glasses. 
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