LILIACE^C. (LILY FAMILY.) r >21 



margins often somewhat bristly-ciliate or spiuulose. (S. tamnoides, Man.; 

 probably not L.) Thickets; Nautucket, Mass. (L. L. Dame); N. J. to Fla., 

 west to 111., Mo., and Tex. 

 H_ 4- ^_ Peduncle 2-4 times the length of the petiole ; leaves ample (3-5' long), 



thin or thinnish, green both sides; berries black; stem terete and branchlets 



nearly so. 



8. S. hispida, Muhl. Rootstock cylindrical, elongated ; stem (climbing 

 high) below densely beset with long and weak blackish bristly prickles, the flow- 

 ering branchlets mostly naked; leaves ovate and the larger heart-shaped, 

 pointed, slightly rough-margined, membranaceous and deciduous; peduncles 

 ]-2' long; sepals lanceolate, almost 3" long. Moist thickets, Conn, to Va., 

 west to Miiin. and Tex. June. 



9. S. Pseudo-China, L. Rootstock tuberous ; stems and branches un- 

 armed, or with very few weak prickles ; leaves ovate-heart-shaped, or on the 

 brauchlets ovate-oblong, cuspidate-pointed, often rougli-ciliate, becoming firm 

 in texture; peduncles flat (2-3' long). Dry or sandy soil, N. J. to Fla., 

 west to S. Ind. and Mo. July. 



* * Leaves varying from oblong -lanceolate to linear, narrowed at base into a short 

 petiole, 3-5-nerved, shining above, paler or glaucous beneath, man;/ without 

 tendrils; peduncles short, seldom exceeding the petioles, terete ; the umbels 

 sometimes panicled ; branches terete, unarmed. 



10. S. lanceolata, L. Leaves thinnish, rather deciduous, ovate-lanceo- 

 late or lance-oblong ; stigmas 3 ; berries dull red. Rich woods and margins 

 of swamps, Va. to Fla., west to Ark. and Tex. June. 



11. S. laurifolia, L. Leaves thick and coriaceous, evergreen, varying from 

 oblong-lanceolate to linear (2^-5' long) ; stigmas solitary and ovary l-celled ; 

 berries black when ripe, 1-seeded, maturing in the second year. Pine-barrens, 

 N. J. to Fla., west to Ark. and La. July, Aug. 



2. ALLIUM, L. ONION. GARLIC. 



Perianth of 6 entirely colored sepals, which are distinct, or united at the very 

 base, 1 -nerved, often becoming dry and scarious and more or less persistent ; 

 the 6 filaments awl-shaped or dilated at base. Style persistent, but jointed upon 

 the very short axis of the ovary, thread-like ; stigma simple. Capsule lobed, 

 loculicidal, 3-valved, with 1 - 2 ovoid-kidney-shaped amphitropous or campy lo- 

 tropous black seeds in each cell. Strong-scented and pungent stemless herbs ; 

 the leaves and scape from a coated bulb; flowers in a simple umbel, some of 

 them frequently changed to bulblets; spathe scarious, 1-2-valved. (The 

 ancient Latin name of the Garlic.) 

 1 . Bulbs cespitose, narrowly oblong and crowning a rhizome ; coats membranous. 



* Leaves (2 or 3) elliptic-lanceolate; ovules solitary in each cell. 

 1. A. tricoccum, Ait. (WILD LEEK.) Scape naked (4 -12' high from 

 clustered pointed bulbs, 2' long), bearing an erect many -flowered umbel ; leaves 

 5 -9' long, 1-2' wide; sepals oblong (greenish white), equalling the nearly 

 distinct filaments ; capsule strongly 3-lobed. Rich woods, W. N. Eng. to Minn, 

 and Iowa, south in the mountains to N. C. Leaves appearing in early spring 

 and dving before the flowers are developed. 



