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29. ERYTHRONIUM, DOGTOOTH VIOLET. (Name from the 

 Greek word for red.) Flowers spring. 



E. Americanum, Ker. YELLOW D. or ADDER'S TONGUE. Moist or 

 low woods, very common E. ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, mottled and dotted 

 with dark -purplish and whitish ; flower light yellow. 



E. dlbidum, Nutt. WHITE D. N. J., W.; leaves less or not at all 

 spotted ; flower bluish-white. 



30. BRODLZEA. (J. J. Brodie, a botanist of Scotland.) Several spe- 

 cies upon the Pacific coast, several of them occasionally cultivated, but 

 only the following species, from S. Amer., is common in gardens. 



B. uniflora. (TRITELE!A, or MfLLA, UNIFLORA). STAU FLOWER. 

 Scape 4'-14' high, 1-flowered (very rarely 2-flowered), with a sheathing 

 spaihe below the flower, the latter pale violet or almost white with a 

 purple stripe in the center of each oblong blunt-pointed segment, I'-l^' 

 long ; leaves several, flat and grass-like, striate, glaucous, as long as the 

 scape. Often confounded with the next. 



31. MILLA. (J. Milla, a Spanish gardener.) 



M. btflora, Cav. Scape smooth, 4'-12' high, bearing 1-5 nearly equal 

 pedicels 3'-6 ; long; perianth l'-2' long, snow-white inside but greenish 

 outside ; leaves nearly terete and rough. Mexico. 



32. ALLIUM, ONION, LEEK, GARLIC, etc. (Ancient Latin name.) 



Taste and odOr alliaceous. 



* Leaves broad and flat / flowers white, in summer. 



A. tricdccum, Ait. WILD LEEK. Kich woods N.; bulbs clustered, 

 large, pointed, sending up in spring 2 or 3 large, lance-oblong, flat leaves, 

 and after they wither, in summer, a many-flowered umbel on a naked 

 scape. 



A. Mbly, Linn. GOLDEN GARLIC. Cult, for ornament in some gardens; 

 leaves broadly lanceolate ; scape 1 high ; flowers numerous, large, golden 



y e * * * Leaves linear, grass-like, or awl-like, not hollow. 

 - Umbel nodding. 



A. crnuum, Roth. Banks, through the Alleghany region and N. W. ; 

 scape angular, l-2 long, often nodding at the apex ; pedicels of the 

 loose, many-flowered umbel drooping; flowers light rose-color; leaves 

 linear, sharply keeled on the back, channeled. 



- t- Umbel erect. 



A. mutdbile, Michx. Dry sandy soil N. Car., S.; scape 1 high, 

 terete, bearing an umbel of white flowers changing to rose-color ; leaves 

 narrow, concave ; bulb coated with a fibrous network. 



A. satlvum, Linn. GARDEN GARLIC. Bulbs clustered, pointed; leaves 

 lance-linear, keeled ; flowers few, purple, or bulblets in their place ; fila- 

 ments all broad and 3-cleft. Eu. 



A. P6rrum, Linn. GARDEN LEEK. Bulb elongated, single; leaves 

 broadly linear, keeled or folded ; flowers in a head, white, with some rose- 

 colored stripes ; 3 of the filaments 3-forked. Eu. 



* * * Leaves terete and hollow. 



H- Bulbs cespitose, crowning a rhizome ; the plant, therefore, tufted. 

 A. Schoendprasum, Linn. CHIVES. Low, in mats ; leaves awl-shaped, 

 equaling the scape ; flowers purple-rose-color, its divisions lanceolate and 



