LILY FAMILY. Liliacesb. 



Erythronium A western species with a peculiar fleshy 



propullans offshoot proceeding from a slit near the 



Rose=pink middle of the stem. Leaves small and 

 Mfl y generally slightly mottled. Flowers bright 



crimson or rose-pink, yellow at the base, half an inch 

 long. Stigmas united. 6-8 inches high. Rich woods 

 of Minn., also in s. Ontario. 



A slender ornamental plant of Europe, 

 Star-of-Bethle- 



hem escaped from gardens. The dark green 



Ornithogalum leaves are narrow and linear, and the 

 umbellatum flowers are borne in a branched cluster ; 



they are white inside, green-lined outside, 

 May-June , ,_ 



and they open only in the sunshine. Name 



from the Greek, meaning bird's milk, supposed to al- 

 lude to the egg-white color of the flower. 4-12 inches 

 high. Found most often in fields and meadows near 

 farm-houses. Mass, to Pa. and Va. See cut forward. 

 Wild Leek * n 8 P rm S * ne w *ld leek develops two or 



Allium tricoc- three light green, flat, oblong-lance-shaped 

 cum leaves 8-10 inches long, and about 1 inch 



Greenish white w j(j e or more, and by summertime when 

 these are withered, the white or greenish 

 white flowers begin to bloom, in a spokelike cluster from 

 a spathe or leaflets at the top of a naked stem. The 

 perfect flowers with stamens and pistil, are six-parted, 

 with six green-white sepals. The flowers are rich honey- 

 bearers and undoubtedly are mostly fertilized by bees. 

 It is an onion-scented herb whose name is the Latin for 

 garlic, and it is not remarkable for its beauty. It grows 

 4-15 inches high, in rich woodlands from west N. E., 

 west to Minn, and Iowa, and south among the Alle- 

 ghanies to N. Car. 



Wild Garli ^" more commonly distributed, ex- 



Allium Cana- tremely narrow-leaved species frequenting 

 dense wet meadows, the flower-cluster of which 



Pale pink or j s sparse in bloom or else is replaced by a 



^ hlte thick cluster of bulblets a frequent oc- 



jYla y j u n e 



currence with Allium. The flower's sepals 



are narrow and obtuse, and quite as long as the stamens. 

 8-24 inches high. Me. to Minn., and south to the Gulf. 

 The Allium s are mostly assisted by flies, bees, moths, 

 and butterflies in the process of fertilization. 

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