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High mountains, Ver. Boott. June. 1\.. Leaves very unequal, one being 

 two or three times as large as the other. Scape shorter than the leaves, with a 

 narrow lanceolate bract 1 2 inches below the flower, which is yellow, half as 

 large as in E. Americanum, and has the segments gibbous at base. 



Bracted Dog-tooth Violet. 



II. HEMEROCALLE.E. 



3. HEMEROCALLIS. Linn. Day Lily. 



(From the Greek fyiepa, a day, and /caXXoj, beauty; its flower lasting but a day.) 

 Perianth tubular, 6-parted ; tube cylindric ; limb campanulate, 

 marcescent. Stamens 6, declined. Ovary superior. Capsule 

 3-sided, 3-celled, 3-valved. Seeds numerous, roundish. 



H. fulva Linn. : leaves linear, keeled ; inner segments of the perianth 

 obtuse, undulate. 



Wet meadows. Penn. July. '2J- Root fasciculate. Scape 3 4 feet high. 

 Leaves about 2 feet long and an inch wide, acute, smooth. Flowers large, taw- 

 ny or reddish-yellow. A foreigner beginning to be naturalized in various parts 

 of Chester county, Penn. Darlington. Copper-colored Day Lily. 



III. SCILLE.E. 



4. ALLIUM. Linn. Garlic. Onion. 

 (From the Celtic All, signifying acrid or burning.") 



Flowers umbellate, arising from a 2-leaved spathe. Perianth 

 inferior, petaloid, 6-leaved or deeply 6-parted, spreading. Sta- 

 mens 6 ; the filaments sometimes tricuspidate. Capsule 3-celled, 

 3-valved, few-seeded. Seeds black and rough. 



1. A. vineale Linn. : stem slender, somewhat leafy ; leaves terete, fistu- 

 lous, channelled above ; umbel often bulbiferous ; filaments alternately cus- 

 pidate, the middle cusp bearing an anther. 



Meadows and pastures. N. S. June, July. 1J-. Bulb ovoid, small. Stem 

 about 2 feet high. Flowers rose-colored. A pernicious weed, introduced from 

 Europe. Field or Crow Garlic. 



2. A. triflorum Pursh : scape naked, terete, shorter than the leaves ; 

 leaves lanceolate, nerved ; umbel few-flowered. 



Shady woods on the high mountains of Penn. May, June. Q]-. Pursh. 



Mountain Leeks. 



3. A. cernuum Roth : scape elongated, angular ; leaves linear, acutely 

 keeled; umbel nodding, many-flowered; leafets of the perianth oblong- 

 ovate, acute ; filaments simple. 



Meadows. N. Y. Penn. July. 7J.. Bulb ovoid, large. Scape 1 2 feet 

 high, marked with lines giving it an angular appearance. Flowers rose-colored, 

 about 20 in an umbel. Wild Onion. 



4. A. Canadense Linn. : stem terete, leafy at the base ; leaves linear, 

 flat, smooth ; umbel few-flowered, bulbiferous ; filaments simple, about as 

 long as the perianth. 



