344 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Edges of swamps in the Pine Barrens ; rare and local. 

 /^/.— Early May to late May (probably). 



Pine Barrens.— Pt. Pleasant, Farmingdale, Toms River (NB), Lakewood 

 (NY), Cedar Bridge (C), Manahawkin, Coxes, West Creek, Browns Mills, 

 Two miles south of Chatsworth. 



Family LILIACE.E. Lilies, etc. 

 Similar in structure to the last, entire perianth conspicuously 

 colored (not green) ; bulbous; fruit a loculicidal capsule. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Plants without onion-like odor. 



b. Flowers blue, nearh^ globular, in an erect raceme. 



[Muscari botryoides]* 

 bb. Flowers red or yellow. 



c. Leaves basal or nearly so. 



d. Leaves two, mottled with brown, flower single j-ellow. 



Brythronuim, p. 346 

 dd. Leaves numerous, linear, flowers several at the end of the 

 leafless scape, tawny and orange. [HemerocaUis fulva]f 



cc. Leaves cauline, verticillate. 



d. Flowers 1-3 erect, red. Lil'inm philadelphicurn, p. 345 



dd. Flowers 1-40, yellow or red, nodding. 



e. Flowers 1-16, generally yellow, petals slightly reflexed 



at tip. L. condense, p. 346 



ee. Flowers 3-40. orange or reddish orange, petals strongly 



reflexed from below the middle. L. snpcrbum, p. 346 



bbb. Flowers white. 



c. Small and cylindric in a slender spike-like raceme. Aletris, p. 347 

 cc. Large, opening in sunshine, corymbose, leaves narrow, fleshy. 



{Ornithogalum umbellatum]t 

 aa. Plants with strong onion-like odor, flowers white or purplish in globose 

 heads. 

 b. Leaves oblong lanceolate, absent at flowering time. A. tricoccuvi, p. 344 

 bb. Leaves linear, present at flowering time. 



c. Covering of the bulg fibrous reliculated. A. canadense, p. 345 



cc. Covering of the bulb membranaceous. [A. vineale^% 



ALLIUM L. 



Allium tricoccum Ait. Wild Leak. 



Allium tricoccum Aiton, Hort. Kew. 1:428. 1789 [North America]. — Brit- 

 ton 241. — Keller and Brown 100. 



* Grape Hyacinth, occasionally escaped from gardens. 

 t Day Lily, often escapes from cultivation. 

 t Star-of-Bethlehem, introduced in damp meadows. 

 § Garlic, a frequent and well-known weed. 



