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CAMASSIA, Lindl. Quamash. 



C. Fraseri, Ton-. (Scilla Fraseri, Gray.) Eastern Quamasb. Wild Hya- 

 cinth. 

 Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Martin county, Cratty, South. 



ALLIUM, L. Onion. Gaklic. 



A. tricocciini, Ait. Wild Leek. 



Throughout the state, exceptnig perhaps far northward; but mostly Infrequent or 

 rare . Minnesota and St. Croix rivers, Parry ; upper Mississippi river, Garri>:on; Fer- 

 gus Falls, Leonard ; Minneapolis, W. H. Hatch, Roberts; Goodhue county, Sandberg; 

 Blue Earth county, Leiberrj; New Ulni, Juni; Martin and Nobles countless, Oedge. [Em- 

 met county, Iowa (very rare), Cratty ; lake Superior, Whitneij ] 



A. cernuiiiii. Roth. Wild Onion. 



Common throughout the prairie portion of the state ; also found at the lake of the 

 Woods, Dawson. (The umbel is reflexed until flowering, but then usually becomes 

 erect.) 



A, stellatiini, Fras. Wild Omon. 



Upper Minnesota river, Geyer; Tracy, Lyon ceunty, Gedge; Minneapolis, Grisivold; 

 lake Pepin, Miss Manning-^ Stearns county. Garrison; Alexandria, Mrs. Terry. Rare. 



A. reticulatii 111, Fras.* Wild Onion. 



Red river valley, Scoff, determined by Mr. Serena tFatson. West. 



A. Sclioenoprasimi , L. Cbives. 



Northeastward. Clark; Stearns county, Mrs. Blaisdell; upper Mississippi river, Gar- 

 rison. ^Manitoba, Macoun] North. 



A. Canadeuse, Kalm. Wild Garlic. 



Common or frequent, through the south part of the state : extending west to Wor- 

 thington, Foote, and Pipestone county, Mrs. Bennett, and north to Minneapolis and 

 Big Stone lake, Upliam, 



JUNCACE^. Rush Family. 



LUZULA, DC. Wood-Rush. 



L. pilosa, Willd. Wood-Rash. 



La,keFepiii, 3Iiss Manning. [Manitoba, Macoim.'l Probably common northward. 



terranean sheathed portion of the scape (which Is commonly five or six inches long), 

 remote from the parent bulb, usually about mid-way between it and the bases or ap- 

 parent insertion of the pair of leaves : this lateral offshoot grows downward, some- 

 times lengthening as in the foregoing species, sometimes remaining short, and its apex 

 dilates into the new bulb. . . . Scape bulbiferous from its sheathed portion below 

 the developed leaves ; these oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly mottled ; perianth 

 rose-purpleor pink (half an inch long) ; the segments acute, all with a yellow spot but 

 plane at the base, the Inner liUe the outer de.*titute of eitlier groove or tootl--Mke appen- 

 dages, but a little more narrowed at base ; anthers merely oblong ; style hardly at all 

 narrowed downward, entire, the small stigma even barely three-lobed; ovules few 

 (4 to 6) in each cell. Gray in Amei-ican Naturalist, vo]. v. 



♦Allium reticulatum, Fras. Coats densely fibrous ; scape 3 to 8 inches high, sub- 

 terete ; leaves very narrowly linear, elongated ; spalhe usually 2-valved ; umbel many- 

 flowered, spreading : pedicels usually short (2 to 6 lines long) ; stamens and style shorter 

 than the usually acute (3 to 4 lines long) white or slightly pinkish sepals ; crest mostly 

 short. Watson's Revision of Allium m Kiiig's E.vpl. of the Fortieth /^aralfet, and his 

 Revision of tJte North American Lilincea\ Proc. Amer. Acad., xiv. 



