POPULAR FLORA. 



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Smilacina (or False Solomon' s-Seal). Smilacma. 



1. Racemed S. Minutely downy, 2° or 3° high, many-leaved; leaves lance-oblong, tapering abruptly 



at both ends, ciliate ; flowers many, in compound racemes. Moist grounds. >S. racemosa. 



2. Star-floweked S. Nearly smooth, 1° or 2° high ; leaves many, lance-oblong, slightly clasping, 



pale beneath ; raceme simple and few-flowered. Moist thickets, &c., N. S. stdlaia. 



3. Thkee-leaved S. Smooth, 3' to 6' high; leaves commonly 3, oblong, tapering into a sheathing 



base; flowers several, in a slender simple raceme. Bogs, N. S- trifulia. 



i. Two-leaved S. Nearly smooth, 3' to 5' high, with commonly 2 heart-shaped leaves, the lower one 



generally petioled; flowers in a simple short raceme; perianth 4-parted, reflexed; stamens 4. 



iloist woods, in spring. "• bijoua. 



Onion (Garlic and Leek). Allium. 

 § 1. Onion proper, with hollow, stem-shaped leaves, and an open, widely spreading, star-shaped blossom. 



1. Garden Onion. Scape naked, much longer than the leaves, hollow, swollen in the middle; 



flowers whitish; umbel often bearing small bulbs (top-onions); the large bulb turnip-shaped. 

 Commonly cultivated. '■^- C^P^'- 



2. Chives 0. Scape naked, about as long as the slei.der leaves; all growing in tufts, from small 



bulbs; flowers purplish, crowded. Cultivated. A. Schamprasum. 



§ 2. Gaelics and Leeks. Leaves flat or keeled and not liollow, except in No. 3. 



8. Field Garlic. Leaves thread-shaped, slender, round, but channelled on the upper side, hollow; 



bulbs small; umbel bearing flowers with a green-purple erectish perianth, or else only bulblets. 



Naturalized in low pastures and gardens. A. vineale. 



4. True or English Garlic. Bulbs clustered and compound ; leaves lance-linear, nearly flat; 



umbel bearing pale purple flowers with an erectish perianth, or else bulblets. Cultivated in gar- 

 dens; not common. A. sativum. 



6. Garden Leek. Bulb single ; leaves linear-oblong, acute, somewhat folded or keeled : flowers 

 crowded in the umbel; perianth erectish, violet-purple. Rarely cultivated. A. Porrum, 



6. Wild Leek. Bulbs clustered, narrow, oblong, and pointed; leaves lance-oblong, blunt, flat, dying 

 off" by midsummer, when the naked scape appears with its loose umbel of white flowers; pod 

 3-lobed. Rich woods, N. and W. A. tricoccum. 



Day-Lily. IFemerocdllis. 



* Flowering stems tall, leafy towards the bottom, somewhat branched above: leaves long and linear, 

 keeled, 2-ranked : stamens on the top of the narrow tube of the perianth : seeds black and wingless. 



1. Common Day-Lily. Flower dull orange-yellow; inner divisions wavy, blunt. Gardens. B.fulva. 



2. Yellow D. Flower light yellow; inner divisions of the perianth acute. Gardens. II. flava. 



* * Flowering stems naked, simple: leaves Ijroad and flat, ovate or oblong, and often heart-shaped, 



with veins springing from the midrib, long-stalked ; stamens on the receptacle: seeds flat and 

 winged {Funkia). 



3. White D. Flower white, funnel-shaped; leaves more or less heart-shaped. Gardens. IL Japonica. 



4. Blue D. Flower blue or bluish, the upper part more bell-shaped than in No. 3 ; leaves scarcely 



heart-shaped. Gardens. E. ccsi'ulea. 



