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

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

 west to 111., Mo., and Tex. 

 -- -t- H- 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 

 > 'l^~2 / long; sepals lanceolate, almost 3" long. Moist thickets, Conn, to Va., 

 west to Minn, 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 

 branchlets ovate-oblong, cuspidate-pointed, often rough-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, many 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. laurif 61ia, 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. tric6ccum, 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 dying before the flowers are developed. 



