PLATE V 



WASHINGTON LILY, Lilium Washingtoniana. Root. 

 As other lilies. Stem. Simple, 4-8 high. Leaves. 

 Small, in whorls or alternate above. Flowers. Large, 

 in a terminal cluster, white, finely dotted with purple and 

 pink. Perianth. Of narrowly oblong, blunt segments, 

 somewhat recurved. Stamens (a). Pistil (&). With a 

 head-like stigma. 



These charming white flowers on their tall, stiff stems 

 are as much more delicate than the Bermuda lilies as the 

 Turk's-Caps are than the Tiger-Lilies. I found them 

 growing in the primeval forests of the Mariposa, in Cali- 

 fornia, in July. 



DAY-LILY, Hermerocallis fulva, together with the 

 YELLOW DAY-LILY, H. flava, are summer foreigners es- 

 caped from our gardens. They have large, grass-like, 

 channelled root-leaves and tawny-orange or yellow 

 flowers, growing several on a scape. 



The GARLICS or ONIONS also belong to the Lily 

 Family. They all have round or oval, odorous bulbs, 

 root-leaves, and small, separate-segmented flowers grow- 

 ing at the summit of a scape in a many-flowered umbel. 

 Beneath are 2-3 membranous bracts. They are not at- 

 tractive plants. 



WILD LEEK, Allium tricoccum, has elliptic, early fading 

 leaves and white flowers. It blooms in early summer, east 

 of the Mississippi and north of North Carolina. 



CHIVES, A . Schoenoprasum, is a Northern variety, with 

 hollow, linear leaves and pink flowers. 



NODDING WILD ONION, A . cernuum, has nodding, white, 

 rose or purple flowers and flat, channelled, linear leaves. 

 It ranges over most of the United States and Canada. 



PRAIRIE WILD ONION, A . stellatum, is much the same, 

 with rose-colored, erect flowers. It blooms in summer, on 

 the Western plains. 



WILD GARLIC, FIELD GARLIC, CROW GARLIC, A. 

 vineale, is a troublesome weed from Europe, naturalized 

 in the Middle States. It has hollow leaves and purple 

 and green flowers, sometimes replaced by bulblets, tipped 

 with a long hair-like appendage. 



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