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29. ERYTHRONIUM, DOGTOOni VIOLET. (Name from the 

 Gi-L'C'k Wdnl for red.) Flo\ver.s spriiiu'. 



E. Americanum, Ker. Ykli.ow I), or Audkk's ToNcai;. Moist or 

 low woods, very common K. ; leave.s oblong-lanceolate, mottled and dotted 

 with (l;irk-iiiui)li.sh and whitish; flower light yellow. 



E. albidum. Nutt. Wiiiri; 1). N. J., W'.; leaves less or not at all 



spotted ; tiower bluish-while. 



30. BRODIiEA. (./. ./. UnxUc, a botanist of Scotland.) Several spe- 

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

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



B. uniflbra. (Triteleia, or Milla, i;nikl6ka). Star flower. 



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

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

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

 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. biflbra. Cav. Scape smooth, 4'-I2' high, bearing 1-5 nearly equal 

 pedicels ;J'-G' 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 ; floxoers white, in sunwier. 



A. tric6ccum. 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. Moly, Linn. Golden Garlic. Cult, for ornament in some gardens; 

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



^^ "^^' * * Leaves linear, grass-like, or aid-like, not hollow. 

 •t- Umbel nodding. 

 A. cdrnuum. 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- -I- Umbel erect. 



A. mut^bile, 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 iibrous network. 



A. sativum, Linn. (iAuoEN (tahlic Bulbs clustered, pointed; leaves 

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

 ments all broad and 3-cleft. Eu. 



A. Pdrrum, lAnn. 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. 



M- Ihtlbs respitnsc, 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 



