Botany of Illinois and Missouri. aig 
Hypoxis erecta Z 7 
Has. Prairies, every where in Ri. states. May. 
Allium striatum Wi lid. 
Scape from 8 to 12 inches high, naked, compressed. 
Leaves radical, linear, nearly as long as the scape, striated 
on the outer surface. Spathe 2-leaved, about 6-flowered. 
Corol spreading large, white. Petals ovate, with a promi- 
nent coloured midrib. 
Ag. Timbered alluvions of the Mississippi near Sts 
Louis—rare. April. 
Phalangium esculentum WN u ¢ t. 
Has. On the prairies of Illinois and Missouri—common: 
y- &. 
aoe Torrey has ; given a very minute ap accurate descrip- 
on of this interesting plant. = ora, p. 346. 
<= 
Lilium canadense Lin. 
m 2—3 feet high, smooth. Leaves whorled, broad 
ay acute, 3—5 nerved. lowers from 1 to 3, nod- 
ding, on peduncles which are four or five inches in EE: 
Hib, Prairies near St. Louis. June. ae 
Lilium Catesbei Wal 
Siem 12 to 18 inches high, smooth, rund Leaves lance+ 
linear ; one whorl of 4 or 5 nea ihe flower ; the rest scat- 
tered. Flowers large, scarlet ielidid pity aa Peta 
sapering into a long claw at base, acute, (not acuminate.) 
Has. In similar situations with the last. June. 
nronium albidum Nutt. 
Leaves impunctate. Flowers reflexed, white or bluish 
white. Petals lance-linear and ait ae 2 near. 
twice the length of the stamens. Stigma t 
H Banks of Peoria lake, near Fort aes Apr , 
This species has the inner petals without 0 ES u 
my herbarium. These Test may belong to the Species aie 
Mr. Nuttall mentions as allied to E. al . y ige 
found in the vicinity of Albany, and may be more parti 
ly pasion hereafter. 
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