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29. ERYTHRONIUM, DOGTOOTH VIOLET. (Name from the 

 Greek word for red.) Flowers spring. 



E. Americ^num, Ker. YELLOW D. or ADDER'S TONGUE. Moist or 

 low woods, very common E. ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, mottled and dotted 

 with dark -purplish and whitish ; flower light yellow. 



E. dlbidum, Nutt. WHITE D. N. J M W.; leaves less or not at all 

 spotted ; flower bluish-white. 



30. BRODIJE A. (J. J. Brodie, a botanist of Scotland.) Several spe- 

 cies upon the Pacific coast, several of them occasionally cultivated, but 

 only the following species, from S. Amer., is common in gardens. 



B. unifldra. (TRITELEIA, or M*LLA, UNIFL6RA). STAR FLOWER. 

 Scape 4'-14 r high, 1-flowered (very rarely 2-flowered), with a sheathing 

 spathe below the flower, the latter pale violet or almost white with a 

 purple stripe in the center of each oblong blunt-pointed segment, I'-iy 

 long ; leaves several, flat and grass-like, striate, glaucous, as long as the 

 scape. Often confounded with the next. 



31. MILLA. (J. Millet, a Spanish gardener.) 



M. bifldra, Cav. Scape smooth, 4 '-12' high, bearing 1-5 nearly equal 

 pedicels 3'-6' long; perianth l'-2' long, snow-white inside but greenish 

 outside ; leaves nearly terete and rough. Mexico. 



32. ALLIUM, ONION, LEEK, GARLIC, etc. (Ancient Latin name.) 

 Taste and odor alliaceous. 



* Leaves broad and flat; flowers white? in summer. 



A. tricdccum, Ait. WILD LEEK. Rich woods N.; bulbs clustered, 

 large, pointed, sending up in spring 2 or 3 large, lance-oblong, flat leaves, 

 and after they wither, in summer, a many-flowered umbel on a naked 

 scape. 



A. Mbly, Linn. GOLDEN GARLIC. Cult, for ornament in some gardens; 

 leaves broadly lanceolate ; scape 1 high ; flowers numerous, large, golden 

 ye ow. # # Leaves linear, grass-like, or awl-like, not hollow. 

 H- Umbel nodding. 



A. ceVnuum, Roth. Banks, through the Alleghany region and N. W.; 

 scape angular, l-2 long, often nodding at the apex; pedicels of the 

 loose, many-flowered umbel drooping ; flowers light rose-color ; leaves 

 linear, sharply keeled on the back, channeled. 



- 4- Umbel erect. 



A. mutdbile, Michx. Dry sandy soil N. Car., S.; scape 1 high, 

 terete, bearing an umbel of white flowers changing to rose-color ; leaves 

 narrow, concave ; bulb coated with a fibrous network. 



A. saflvum, Linn. GARDEN GARLIC. Bulbs clustered, pointed; leaves 

 lance-linear, keeled ; flowers few, purple, or bulblets in their place ; fila- 

 ments all broad and 3-cleft. Eu. 



A. Pdrrum, Linn. GARDEN LEEK. Bulb elongated, single ; leaves 

 broadly linear, keeled or folded ; flowers in a head, white, with some rose- 

 colored stripes ; 3 of the filaments 3-forked. Eu. 



# * * Leaves terete and hollow. 

 - Bulbs cespitose, crowning a rhizome; the plant, therefore, tufted. 



A. Schoendprasum, Linn. CHIVES. Low, in mats ; leaves awl-shaped, 

 equaling the scape ; flowers purple-rose-color, its divisions lanceolate and 



