142 Liliaceae. 



544 Scape leafless, Convallaria VI. 



544 Stem leafy, Polygonatum VII. 



545 Flowers blue, . c . . . . Hyacinthus V. 



545 Flowers white, ...... Ornithogalum IX. 



546 Flowers yellow, ........ Gagea IV. 



546 Flowers white or pink, . . . . . . . Allium III. 



I.— R use US. 



Rus'cua aculea'tus (29). Butcher's Broom. 2 — 4. Stems i — 2 ft. erect 



(1389) tufted branched angled, leaves minute bearing in their axils leaflike 



ovate branches on which the flowers are sessile, perianth 6-partite | in. 



diam. white, stamens 3, filaments united to form a tube, ovary 3-celled, 



flowers usually monoecious, fruit a red berry. [M. T. L. Nt. Wl. CI. 



II. —NAR THECIUM. 



NARTHE'CIUM OSSIF'RAGUM (95). Bog-Asphodel. 6—8. Stem 



(1422) 6 — 8 in., leaves rigid strongly ribbed acuminate, flowers \ in. diameter 



golden yellow in racemes, perianth-segments nearly equal spreading, 



capsule triangular red narrow longer than the perianth. Bogs and wet 



places. 



III.— ALLIUM. 



Flowers in umbels with a 2 -leaved membranous spathe, perianth of 6 

 spreading segments, stigma simple, capsule triangular, plants foetid and 

 pungent. 



Stem leafy, 547 



Leaves all radical, .A. ursinum. 



547 Leaves fiat, .... A. Scorodoprasum. 



547 Leaves fleshy A. vineale. 



Al'lium Scorodop'rasum (16). Sand Garlic. 5 — 7. Leaves flat keeled 

 {1398) 6 — 8 in. long \ in. broad, umbels with 10 — 30 reddish-purple flowers. 



[G. {Kilns ey Crag, Langcliffe.) 



Allium olera'ceum (47). Field Garlic. 7—8. Leaves very slender 

 (1401) sheathing the slender scape to about the middle grooved above ribbed 

 beneath, umbel of about 10 brownish flowers on slender pedicels. 



[G. {Feizor, Malham, Kilnsey, Langcliffe)^ CI. 



AL'LIUM VINEA'LE (76). Crow Garlic. 6—7. Leaves I ft.— 

 (1400) 2 ft. long fistular flattened or grooved above, umbel with about 12 

 greenish or pink flowers frequently bearing bulbs. Waste dry places . 



AL'LIUM URSI'NUM (99). Broad-leaved Garlic or Ramsons. 4—6. 

 (1407) Leaves ovato-lanceolate sheathing the base of the triangular scape, 



umbel regular flat-topped with about 15 pure white flowers and 2 ovate 



spathes, perianth-segments lanceolate. Woods. 



