364 LILIACE^E. 



Wet meadows. Can. to Car. May, June. ^.Bulh ovoid, small. Stem 

 12 18 inches high. Leaves very long and narrow. Flowers rose-colored. 



Canadian Garlic. 



5. A. Iricoccum Ait. : leaves lance-oblong, flat, smooth ; umbel somewhat 

 crowded; leafets of the perianth oblong, obtuse, about as long as the sta- 

 mens ; filaments simple, dilated downwards. 



Moist woods. N. Y. to Virg. June, July. Ij.. Bulb oblong-ovoid, rather 

 large. Scape about a foot high. Flowers white, in a globose umbel. Capsule 

 with the cells 1-seeded. Three-seeded Garlic. 



5. ORNITHOGALUM. Linn. Star of Bethlehem. 

 (From the Greek opvts , opuSoc, a bird, and yaXa, milk ; application unknown.) 

 Perianth deeply 6 -parted, spreading above. Stamens 6, hy- 

 pogynous ; the filaments dilated at base. Ovary superior. Cap- 

 sule roundish-angular, 3 -celled. Seeds few, roundish or angular, 

 black and rough. 



C. umbellatum Linn. : corymb few-flowered ; peduncles longer than the 

 bracts ; filaments subulate. 



Wet meadows. N. Y. and Penn. May, June. f l|-. Bulb small, ovoid. Scape 

 610 inches high, smooth. Leaves radical, linear, smooth. Flowers white in- 

 side, green with a white margin outside. Introduced from Europe. 



Common Star of Bethlehem. 



IV. WACHENDORFEJE. 



6. LOPHIOLA. Ker. Lophiola. 

 (From the Greek Xo^ta, a crest ; in allusion to its woolly perianth.) 



Perianth 6-parted, woolly, bearded within. Stamens 6. Fil- 

 aments naked. Anthers erect. Stigma simple. Capsule open- 

 ing at the summit. 



L. aurea Ker. Conostylis Americana Pursh. 



Sandy swamps. N. J. to Car. July. %. Root creeping. Leaves radical, 

 grass-like, ensiform, shorter than the erect scape which has 1 or 2 short leaves. 

 Flowers yellow, in a crowded corymb. Golden-crested Lophiola. 



V. ASPARAGE.E. 



7. ASPARAGUS. Linn. Asparagus. 

 (From the Greek amrapayos , an esculent vegetable.) 



Perianth 6-parted, subcampanulate, the segments spreading 

 at the apex. Stamens 6. Anthers peltate. Style very short. 

 Berry 3-celled ; cells 2-seeded. 



A. officinalis Linn. : unarmed ; stem herbaceous, erect, rounded, much 

 branched ; leaves setaceous, fasciculate and flexible ; peduncles jointed in 

 the middle. 



Gravelly shores, near salt water, N. Y. June. T\..Stem 13 feet high. 



