470 LILIACEjE. ^LILY FAMILY.) 



4. A. SclHEllOpl'iiSUIll, L. (CHIVES.) Scape naked, or leafy at the 

 base (i-l high) bearing a globular capitate umb.l of many rose-purple flow- 

 ers; sei)als lanceolate, pointed, longer than the simple downwardly dilai- 

 ments; Inins <i/cl-s/uijjtil, hollow . Var. with recurved tips to the sepals (A. 

 Sibirieum, L.) Shore of Lakes Huron, Superior, and northward. (Ku.) 



+- - Umbel often densely bulb-bear iny, with or without flowers. 



5. A VIWEALE, L. (FIELD GARLIC.) Seapc slender, clothed with the 

 sheathing bases of the leaves below the middle (l-3 high) ; Luc 



low, slender, channelled above ; filaments much dilated, the altir/,<il<; om-s 

 the middle division anther-bearing. Moist meadows and fields, near tin. 

 June. Flowers rose-color and green. (Nat. from Eu.) 



6. A. CaiiadcilS<>, Kalm. (WiLD MEADOW GARLIC.) Scape leafy 

 only at the base (1 high); leaves narrowly linear, Jlattish ; umbel few-flowered; 

 jiluHtcnt* simple, dilated below. Moist meadows, &c. May, June. Flowers 

 pale rose-color, pedicelied ; or a head of bulbs in their place. 



# # * Ovules several in each cell ; leaves long and linear. (Nothoscordum, Kunlh.) 



7. A Stiiiituill, Jacq. Leaves narrowly linear, often convolute, striate 

 on the back, about the length of the obscurely 3-angled naked scape (C'-12' 

 long) ; filaments dilated below, shorter than the narrowly oblong sepals (which 

 are white with a reddish keel) ; ovules 4-7 in each cell. Prairies and open 

 woods, Virginia to Illinois, and southward. May. 



A. TRIFLORUM, Raf., from the mountains of Penn., is wholly obscure. 

 A. SAxlvusi, the GARDEN GARLIC, A. PORRUM, the LEEK, and A. CEP A, 

 the ONION, are well-known cultivated species. 



10. LLIITftE, L. LILY. 



Perianth funnel-form or bell-shaped, colored, of 6 distinct sepals, spreading or 

 recurved above, with a honey-bearing furrow at the base, deciduous ; the 6 sta- 

 mens somewhat adhering to their bases. Anthers linear, versatile. Style elon- 

 gated, somewhat club-shaped: stigma 3-lobed. Pod oblong, containing numer- 

 ous flat (depressed) soft-coated seeds densely packed in 2 rows in each cell. 

 Bulbs scaly, producing simple stems, with numerous alternate-scattered or 

 whorled short and sessile leaves, and from one to several large and showy- 

 flowers. (The classical Latin name, from the Greek Xeipiov.) 



# Floiccrs erect, bell-shaped, the sepals narrowed beloiu into claws. 



1. L.. Pliilaclclpliiciiiii, L. (WILD ORANGE-RED LILY.) Leai<cs 

 linxtr-lanrtn/fife; the upper chicjlt/ in whorls of 5 to 8 ; flowers 1-3, open-In il- 

 shaped, rnMis/i-f*r<t)it/r. spotted with purplish inside; the lanceolate sepals not 

 recurved at tin- summit. Open copses; rather common. June, July. Stem 

 2 -3 high : the flower 2' long. 



2. I*. Catesbiri, Walt. (SOUTHERN RED LILY.) Lmrt-x Unmr-lance- 

 olate, scattered; flower solitary, opcn-bell-shapcd, the long-flawed epals wavy 

 on the margin and recurved at tin- summit, #-<ir/<t, spotted with dark purple and 

 yellow inside. Low sandy soil, Pennsylvania? to Kentucky and southward. 



