LILY FAMILY. 



g. Allium reticulatum Don. Eraser's 

 Wild Onion. (Fig. 1000.) 



AH in >n reticulatum Nutt. Fraser's Cat. Name only. 



1^1 v 



Allium reticulatum Don, Mem. Wern. Soc. 6: 36. 



1826-31. 



Similar to the preceding species, the bulb rather 

 larger, its coats prominently fibrous-reticulated. 

 Scape s'-io' tall, slender ; leaves usually less than 

 \" wide; bracts of the several-flowered umbel 

 mostly 2, acuminate; pedicels slender, $"-6" long; 

 flowers white or pink, 2>^ // -3 // long; perianth- 

 segments longer than the stamens, thin; capsule 

 shorter than the perianth, each of its valves bearing 

 2 short crests just below the summit. 



Assiniboia and South Dakota to New Mexico ami 

 Arizona. May-July. 



4. NOTHOSCORDUM Kunth, Kmiin. 4: 457. i* 



Scapose herbs, similar to the onions, but without alliaceous odor, with nicmbranoot- 

 coated bulbs, narrowly linear basal leaves and small yellow or yellowish-green flower* in an 

 erect terminal simple 2-bracted umbel. Perianth 6-parled to the base, withering-persistent. 

 its segments, i-nerved. Stamens 6, inserted on the bases of the perianth-segment!!; fila- 

 ments filiform or subulate; anther-sacs introrscly dehiscent. Ovary sessile, 3-celled; ovule* 

 several in each cavity; style filiform, jointed near the base, but commonly persistent; stigma 

 small, capitate. Capsule 3-lobed, loculicidal. Seeds angled or flattish, black. [Greek. 

 signifying false garlic.] 



About 10 species, the following in the southern United States and Mexico, 8 or 9 in tropical and 

 South America, i Chinese. 



i. Nothoscordum bivalve t L. ) Britton. 

 Yellow False Garlic. < I-'ig. 1001.) 



I't .*o6. 75 

 Allium orniihogaloidcs V!iH\ i: 



Allium slriaiion ].\^<\. Coll. Suppl. 51. 17 

 Nolhosconiiim slrniliint Kunth. ICnum. 4: 439. 1843. 



Bulb globose, less than i' in diameter, its 

 coats membranous. Leaves ' 3 "-2#" wide, 

 flat, blunt or acutish, shorter than the scape 

 or equalling it; bracts of the umbel lanceolate. 

 acuminate, membranous, persistent; umbel 6- 

 12-flowered; pedicels filiform, usually unequal. 

 becoming rather rigid and i fruit; 



flowers 5 "-6" long; perianth-segments thin. 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute, longer than the sta- 

 mens; capsule obovoid or somewhat depressed, 

 obtusely 3-lobed, 2"-s" high, the style as long 

 or slightly longer. 



In <.m.ly soil. Virginia to Tennessee an ' 

 1>r:i-k:i. SOttth to Flonda, Texas* and ' 



ci-nds t.. 15... ft in C.corgia. Man-h j 



5. ANDROSTEPHIUM Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Sttrv. 218. 

 Scapose herbs from a small membranous-coated corm. Leaves basal, narrowly 



Plowers rather large, blue, in a terminal erect several-bract,,! umbel. Pedant 

 withering-persistent, the tube about as long as the 6 oblong lobes 

 the throat of the perianth; filaments dilated, united to the middle or a 

 crown-like;tube with toothed lobes alternating with the hnear-obU 

 sile, 3-celled; ovules several in each cavity; style filiform; st.gma j-groo; 

 branous, 3 -angled, loculicidal. Seeds few, large, oval, black. [C.reek, refemng U 

 Two>pecies, natives of the southwestern United Stat.--. 



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