

LILY FAMILY. 

 3. Allium cernuum Roth. Nodding Wild Onion. (Fi K . 



/. cc> nun m Roth; Roeni. Arch. I: Part 3, 40. 1798. 



Bulbs usually clustered on a short rootstock, nar- 



vly ovoid, with a long neck, i'-2^' high, the 



ats not fibrous-reticulated. Scape slender, slightly 

 ridded, i-2high; leaves linear, channeled or nearly 

 flat, \"-i" wide, mostly shorter than the scape, 

 bluntish, umbel many-flowered, nodding in flower, 

 subtended by 2 short deciduous bracts; pedicels fili- 

 form, 8"-i5" long; flowers white, rose or purple; 

 perianth-segments ovate-oblong, acute or obtusisli, 

 ' long; stamens longer than the perianth; lila- 

 inents nearly filiform; ovules 2 in each cavity of 

 the ovary; capsule 3-lobed, rather shorter than the 



rianth, each valve bearing 2 short processes near 

 summit. 



( )n hanks and hillsides, New York to Minnesota and 

 -itish Columbia, South Carolina, South Dakota, and in 

 L- Rocky Mountains to New Mexico. Variable. As- 

 iids to .fooo ft. in North Carolina. July-Aug. 



Allium stellatum Kir. Prairie WiM 

 Onion. ' Fi^'. ., 



Allium st,ll<itnm K.-r, Bot. Mag. fil. /if*. 

 Bulbs solitary or several together, narrowly 

 ovoid, i"-2 / long, their coats membranous*. Scape 

 slender, 8'-i8' tall, somewhat ridged above; leave* 

 linear, ^"-[' 4 " wide, nearly tlat; unit* I ^ \cral- 

 many-flowercil, erert, subtended by a lanceolate or 

 ovate acuminate bracts; pedicels filiform, 6"-io" 

 long; flowers rose-color; pvri.mth *cgmenL<i ovate- 

 oblong, acute, 2"-3" long, e<m.ilhnK or rather 

 shorter than the st., metis; filaments filiform. lt . 

 widened at the base; capsule shorter than the pen- 

 anth, 3-lobed, about 6-seeded, each valve bearing a 

 erect processes or crests below the apex. 



On rocky banks, Illinois ami M i nneaoU to MlMOri 

 and Kansas. July-Aujf. 



5. Allium vineale L. Wild Garlic. Field Garlic. Cn* 



Allium I'ineale L. Sp. PI. 299. 1753 



Bulb ovoid, i' high or less, its coats membran- 

 ous. Stem i-3 tall, bearing 2-4 narrowly linear 

 terete hollow somewhat channeled leaves below the 

 middle at flowering time, the early basal leaves 

 similar, numerous, 4 / -io / long; bracts of the umbel 

 2, lanceolate, acuminate, deciduous; umbel few- 

 many-flowered, erect, the flowers often wholly or 

 in part replaced by small ovoid bulblets which are 

 tipped with a long capillary appendage; pedicels 

 y/_ I2 // long, filiform, the lower spreading or 

 drooping; flowers green or purple, about 2" long; 

 perianth -segments ovate lanceolate, stamens in- 

 cluded or slightly exserted ; filaments flattened, 

 broad, the 3 interior ones bearing a tooth on each 

 side just below the anther; capsule 3-lobed, shorter 

 than the perianth. 



In fields and meadows, Connecticut to Ohio, Missouri 

 and Virginia. Naturalized from Europe. A trouble- 

 some weed in the Middle States, infesting: pasture-., 

 and tainting the flavor of spring butter. June-July. 



