LILY FAMILY. 

 ) Mill. 





2. Muscari racemosum (L. 

 Starch Grape-Hyacinth. 

 (Fig. 1022.) 



'Jyacinthus racemosus L. Sp. PI. 318. 1753. 



fuscari racemosum Mill. Card. Diet. Ed. 8, no. 2 

 1768. 



Similar to the preceding species. Leaves i"- 

 wide, recurved or spreading, channelled 

 above; raceme oblong or ovoid, many-flowered, 

 dense, i / -2^ / long; pedicels shorter than the 

 starchy-scented flowers or sometimes equalling 

 them, slender, much longer than the bracts; 

 perianth oblong, urn-shaped, constricted at the 

 throat, 2 // -3 // long, with 6 deltoid recurved 

 rhite teeth; capsule-valves suborbicular, retust. 



Escaped from gardens, southern New York to 

 ennsylvania and Maryland. Native of southern 

 Jurope. April-May. 



13. ALETRIS L. Sp. PI. 319. 1753. 



Scapose perennial bitter fibrous-rooted herbs, with basal spreading lanceolate leave*, and 

 lall white or yellow bracted perfect flowers in a terminal spike-like raceme. Perianth ob- 

 long or campanulate, roughened without, 6-lobed, its lower part adnate to the ovary. 

 stamens 6, inserted on the perianth at the bases of the lobes, included; filament* abort; an- 

 lers introrse. Ovary 3-celled; ovules numerous, anatropous; style subulate, or short, j- 

 left above; stigmas minutely 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid, enclosed by the persistent perianth. 

 j-celled, many-seeded, loculicidal. Seeds oblong, ribbed. Embryo small. Endoapetm 

 leshy. [Greek, signifying to grind corn, apparently in allusion to the rough, mealy 

 awers.] 

 About 8 species, natives of eastern North America and eastern Asia. 



Perianth white, oblong. 

 Perianth yellow, bell-shaped. 



t. A. mmrt*. 



i. Aletris farinosa L. Star-grass. Colic-rex 1023,) 



A let ris farinosa I. Sp !; u . 



Roots numerous, tough, scape i V j tall. 

 slender, terete, striate. "bearing several or nu- 

 merous small distant bract-like leave*. Basal 

 leaves several, lanceolate or linear lanceo- 

 late, acuminate at the apex, narrowed to the 

 base, spreading, pale yellowish green. *'-V 

 long, 3"-io" wide; raceme 4'-i' long in 

 flower, or longer in fruit, dense, erect, pedi- 

 cels i" long or less; bracts subulate, longer 

 than the pedicels sometimes 2 to each fl- 

 perianth tubular-oblong, white, or the oblong 

 lobes yellowi-: long, aboot 



thick; style subulate; capsule ovoid, about 

 long, loculicidal above, each of it* 3 

 valves tipped with a subulate portion of the 

 style. 



In dry. mostly sandy soil, Maine tt 

 and Minnesota -rid* and Tern* 



Ascends to vs^ft > n V>nrti 

 (,,,., pecie occar IB the 



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