470 LILIACE^:. ^LILT FAMILY.) 



4. A. SclHrnoprasum, L. (CHIVES.) Scape naked, or leafy at the 

 base (-l high) bearing a globular capitate umbel of many rose-purple flow 

 ers ; sepals lanceolate, pointed, longer than the simple downwardly dilated fila- 

 ments; leaves awl-shaped, hollow. Var. with recurved tips to the sepals (A. 

 Sibiricum, L.) Shore of Lakes Huron, Superior, and northward. (Eu.) 



*- H- Umbel often densely bulb-bearing, with or without Jlowers. 



5. A. VIKEALE, L. (FIELD GARLIC.) Scape slender, clothed with the 

 sheathing bases of the leaves below the middle (l-3 high) ; leaves terete, lid- 

 low, slender, channelled above ; filaments much dilated, the alternate ones Deleft, 

 the middle division anther-bearing. Moist meadows and fields, near the coast. 

 June. Flowers rose-color and green. (Nat. from Eu.) 



6. A. Canadense, Kalm. (WILD MEADOW GARLIC.) Scape leafy- 

 only at the base (1 high) ; leaves narrowly linear, Jlattish; umbel few-flowered; 

 filaments simple, dilated below. Moist meadows, &c. May, June. Flowers 

 pale rose-color, pedicelled ; or a head of bulbs in their place. 



* =fc * Ovules several in each cell ; leaves long and linear. (Nothoscordum, Kunth.) 



7. A. strifttuui, Jacq. Leaves narrowly linear, often convolute, striate 

 on the back, about the length of the obscurely 3-angled naked scape (6' -12' 

 long) ; filaments dilated below, shorter than the narrowly oblong sepals (which 

 are white with a reddish keel) ; ovules 4-7 in each cell. Prairies and open 

 woods, Virginia to Illinois, and southward. May. 



A. TRIFL6RUM, Raf., from the mountains of Penn., is wholly obscure. 

 A. SATIVUM, the GARDEN GARLIC, A. P6RRUM, the LEEK, and A. CEI-A. 

 the ONION, are well-known cultivated species. 



10. JL1LIVJJI, L. LILT. 



Perianth funnel-form or bell-shaped, colored, of 6 distinct sepals, spreading or 

 recurved above, with a honey-bearing furrow at the base, deciduous ; the 6 sta- 

 mens somewhat adhering to their bases. Anthers linear, versatile. Style elon- 

 gated, somewhat club-shaped : stigma 3-lobed. Pod oblong, containing numer- 

 ous flat (depressed) soft-coated seeds densely packed in 2 rows in each cell. 

 Bulbs scaly, producing simple stems, with numerous alternate-scattered or 

 whorled short and sessile leaves, and from one to several large and showy 

 flowers. (The classical Latin name, from the Greek Xeipiov.) 



* Flowers erect, bell-shaped, the sepals narrowed below into claws. 



1. L. Philadelpliicum, L. (WILD ORANGE-RED LILT.) Leaves 

 linear-lanceolate ; the upper chiefly in whorls of 5 to 8 ; flowers 1-3, open-bell- 

 shaped, reddish-orange spotted with purplish inside ; the lanceolate sepals not 

 recurved at the summit. Open copses ; rather common. June, July, Stem 

 2 -3 high : the flower 2' long. 



2. L,. Catesbeei, Walt. (SOUTHERN &ED LILT.) Leaves linear-lance- 

 olate, scattered; flower solitary, open-bell-shaped, the long-clawed sepals wavy 

 on the margin and recurved at the summit, scarlet, spotted with dark purple and 

 yellow inside. Low sandy soil, Pennsylvania? to Kentucky and southward. 



