LILIACEAE (LILY FAMILY) 



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MEADOW GARLIC 

 Allium canadense, L. 

 Native. Perennial. Propagates by aerial bulblets, occasionally by 



Time of bloom: May to June. 



Seeds: Seldom produced ; aerial bulblets ripen in July and August. 

 Range: Maine to Minnesota, southward to the Gulf of Mexico. 

 Habitat: Moist meadows, pastures, and thickets. 



The range of native species of Onion or Garlic is more extensive, 

 but not one of them is so rank in taste and odor, or so difficult to 

 exterminate, as the immigrant Field Garlic. Most 

 of them have a preference for low, moist soil and 

 the shade of thickets, and disappear before drain- 

 age and cultivation. This one is most adaptive 

 and therefore most troublesome. Its bulblets 

 are slightly larger than grains of wheat or rye, so 

 that they are not difficult of removal with a sieve 

 of proper-sized mesh. But often the weed is a 

 plague of pasture and meadow, to the detriment 

 of dairy products. (Fig. 44.) 



Bulb small, distinguishable from that of the 

 Field Garlic by its coat, which is fibrous and netted 

 instead of a soft, membranous skin, and by the 

 leaves, which rise directly from the bulb instead 

 of being borne part of the way up the flowerstalk. 

 and are flattened in cross section. Flowerstalk 

 eight inches to two feet in height, round, and 

 smooth; umbel large, the flowers pink, sometimes 

 almost white, very numerous. Aerial bulblets 

 ovoid, plump, their capillary appendage sometimes 



exceeding an inch in length. n / r Fl j G ' 4 /^' r~ 



_ , . . , Meadow dame 



Measures for extermination the same as recom- (Allium cana- 



mended for Field Garlic. dense), x i 



SAW BRIER 

 Smllax glaiica, Walt. 



Other English names: Chain Brier, Prickly Bamboo, False Sarsa- 



parilla. 

 Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by tubers. 



