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LILIACE^E. yLILY FAMILY.) 



4. A. Sctlo^nopriBSllliB, L. (Chides.) Scape naked, or leafy at the 

 base (£°-l° high) bearing a globular capitate umbel of many rose-purple flow- 

 ers; sepals lanceolate, pointed, longer than the simple downwardly dilated fila- 

 ments; leaves awl-shaped, hollow. Var. with recurved tips to the sepals (A. 

 Sibiricum, L.) — Shore of Lakes Huron, Superior, and northward. (Eu.) 



-•- •*- Umbel often densely bulb-bearing, with or without flowers. 



5. A. vineAle, L. (Field Garlic.) Scape slender, clothed with the 

 sheathing bases of the leaves below the middle (l°-3° high) ; leaves terete, hoi- 

 low, slender, channelled above ; f laments much dilated, the alternate ones 3rdeft, 

 the middle division anther-bearing. — Moist meadows and fields, near the coast. 

 June. — Flowers rose-color and green. (Nat. from Eu.) 



6. A. Cs&Biariesssc, Ealm. (Wild Meadow Garlic.) Scape leafy 

 only at the base (1° high) ; leaves narrowly linear, fattish ; umbel few-flowered; 

 filaments simple, dilated below. — Moist meadows, &c. May, June. — Flowers 

 pale rose-color, pedicelled ; or a head of bulbs in their place. 



* * # Ovules several in each cell ; leaves long and linear. (Nothoscordum, Kunth.) 



7. A. sti'ifatum, Jacq. Leaves narrowly linear, often convolute, striate 

 on the back, about the length of the obscurely 3-angled naked scape (6' -12' 

 long) ; filaments dilated below, shorter than the narrowly oblong sepals (which 

 are white with a reddish keel) ; ovules 4-7 in each cell. — Prairies and open 

 woods, Virginia to Illinois, and southward. May. 



A. trifl6rum, Raf., from the mountains of Penn., is wholly obscure. 

 A. sativum, the-GARDEN Garlic, A. Porrum, the Leek, and A. Cera, 

 the Onion, are well-known cultivated species. 



10. LiLIUM, L. Lily. 



Perianth funnel-form or bell-shaped, colored, of 6 distinct sepals, spreading or 

 recurved above, with a honey-bearing furrow at the base, deciduous ; the 6 sta- 

 mens somewhat adhering to their bases. Anthers linear, versatile. Style elon- 

 gated, somewhat club-shaped : stigma 3-lobed. Pod obloug, containing numer- 

 ous flat (depressed) soft-coated seeds densely packed in 2 rows in each cell. — 

 Bulbs scaly, producing simple stems, with numerous alternate-scattered or 

 whorlcd short and sessile leaves, and from one to several large and showy 

 flowers. (The classical Latin name, from the Greek \eipiov.) 



* Flowers erect, bell-shaped, the sepals narrowed below into claws. 



1. I-. PliiladelpSiiciBin, L. (Wild Orange-red Lily.) Leaves 

 linear-lanceolate; the upper chiefly in whorls of 5 to 8; flowers 1-3, open-bell- 

 shaped, reddish-orange spotted with purplish inside ; the lanceolate sepals not 

 recurved at the summit. — Open copses ; rather common. June, July. — Stem 

 2° -3° high : the flower 2j* long. 



2. L,. Catesl>»?i, Walt. (Southern Red Lily.) Leaves linear-lance- 

 olate, scattered ; flower solitary, open-bell-shapcd, the long-clawed sepals wavy 

 on the margin and recurved at the summit, scarlet, spotted with dark purple and 

 yellow inside. — Low sandy soil, Pennsylvania? to Kentucky and southward. 



