HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Crisped Bunch-flower 



Melanthium latifblium. — Family, Lily. Color, greenish white. 

 vSix spreading, clawed sepals and petals compose the perianth. 

 Stamens, 6. Styles, 3. A tall and slender plant, 2 to 4 feet in 

 height. Flowers, on pedicels in large terminal panicles. Leaves, 

 long, narrow, acute at apex, narrowing to the base, the lower 

 clasping, numerous on the tall stem. July and August. 



In dry woods and among hills, ascending in the south to 

 a height of 2.000 feet. 



Wild Leek 



Allium tricoccum. — Family, Lily. Color, white or greenish. 

 Leaves, long and narrow, disappearing before the flowers come. 



From a coated bulb, the leaves appear early in spring, growing 

 less than a foot high. Later, the flowers come in umbels, like those 

 of the cultivated onion. July. 



Wet woods and meadows. Unfortunately the familiar, 

 onion-like smell belongs to the wild leek, which otherwise 

 is not lacking in pretensions to beauty. New Brunswick 

 to North Carolina and Tennessee. 



Wild Garlic 

 A. canadense grows from a single bull) to the height of a foot 

 or more. Small bulbs often replace the pink or white flowers. 

 We1 meadows. May and June. 



White Dog's-tooth Violet 



Erythrbnium albidum. — Family, Lily. Perianth of 6 lily-like divi- 

 sions, white with a tinge of pink, the sepals curled backward. 

 Stamens, 6. Style, long and projecting, bearing 3 stigmas. 

 Flowers, single, showy, nodding. A pair of opposite leaves, 

 spotted or entirely green, springs from the flower-stem. April. 



Deep, cool, moist woods. New Jersey westward and 

 southward as far as Texas. Rare in the Eastern States. 



Star of Bethlehem 



Ornithogalum umbellktum ("bird's milk," from color of flowers). 

 — Family, Lily. Leaves, long, narrow, 1 -ribbed, grass-like, fleshy, 

 equal to or longer than the flower-stems. A pretty pure white 

 flower, with 6 spreading sepals, opening in sunshine, green in 

 the middle on the under side. Flowers pedicelled, each with a 

 bract, clustered on the summit of the scape, 5 to 12 inches high. 

 The root is a coated bulb. May and June. 



Escaped from gardens, and found wild; quite common 



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