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1. A. tric6ccum Ait. (WILD LEEK.) Scape (1.5-4 dm. high, from clustered 

 pointed bulbs 3.5-5 cm. long) bearing an erect many-flowered umbel ; leaves 

 10-23 cm. long and 3-6 cm. wide ; segments of the perianth oblong (greenish 

 white), equaling the nearly distinct filaments ; capsule strongly 3-lobed. Rich 

 woods, N. B. to Minn, and la., s. in the mts. to N. C. Leaves appearing in 

 early spring and dying before the flowers are developed. 



2. A. Schoen6prasum L., var. sibiricum (L.) Hartm. Scape (2-4 dm. high) 

 bearing a globular capitate umbel of many rose-purple flowers ; segments of the 

 perianth lanceolate, pointed, longer than the simple downwardly dilated fila- 

 ments ; leaves awl-shaped, hollow ; capsule not crested. Ledgy shores, Nfd. to 

 Alaska, s. to N. S., n. N. E., the Great Lake region, etc. (Eurasia.) The typi- 

 cal form of the species (the Chives of vegetable gardens) is a lower and more 

 slender but not sharply separable plant. 



3. A. cSrnuum Roth. (WILD ONION.) Scape angular (2.5-6 dm. high), 

 nodding at the apex, bearing a loose or drooping few-many-flowered umbel; 

 leaves linear, flattened, sharply keeled (3 dm. long); segments of the perianth 

 oblong-ovate, acute, rose-color to purple, shorter than the slender filaments 

 and style ; capsule 6-crested. (? A. allegheniense Small.) N. Y. to S. C., and 

 westw. 



4. A. stellHtum Ker. Scape terete (3-5 dm. high), slender, bearing an erect 

 umbel ; bulb-coats membranous ; capsule prominently 6-crested. Rocky slopes, 

 Minn, to w. 111., Mo., and westw. 



5. A. reticulitum Don. Scape 1-1.8 dm. high ; bulbs densely and coarsely 

 fibrous-coated ; spathe 2-valved ; umbel rarely bulbiferous ; sepals ovate to 

 narrowly lanceolate, thin and lax in fruit, a third longer than the stamens ; 

 capsule crested. Sask. to la. and N. Mex. 



6. A. canadSnse L. (WILD GARLIC.) Scape 3 dm. high or more ; bulb 

 small (1.2-1.8 cm. in diameter); bulb-coats somewhat fibrous; umbel densely 

 bulbiferous, the flowers few or often none; segments of the perianth narrowly 

 lanceolate, equaling or exceeding the stamens ; capsule not crested. Moist 

 meadows, N. B. to Ont., s. to Fla. and Tex. May, June. 



7. A. mutabile Michx. Similar in stature, habit, and flowers to preceding ; 

 umbels not normally bulbiferous, many (16-43) -flowered ; bulbs 2-3 cm. in 

 diameter. Prairies and borders of woods, Mo. (Bush.} to Fla., Tex., and Neb. 



8. A. VINEALE L. (FIELD GARLIC.) Stem slender (3-9 dm. high), clothed 

 with the sheathing bases of the leaves below the middle ; leaves terete and 

 hollow, slender, channeled above ; umbel often densely bulbiferous ; filaments 

 much dilated, the alternate ones cuspidate on each side of the anther. Moist 

 meadows and fields, locally abundant, Mass, to Mo., and Va. June. (Nat. from 

 Eu.) 



14. NOTHOSC6RDUM Kunth. 



Flowers greenish or yellowish white. Capsule obovoid, somewhat lobed, 

 obtuse, with the style obscurely jointed on the summit ; cells several-ovuled 

 and -seeded. Filaments filiform, distinct, adnate at base. Bulb tunicated, 

 not alliaceous. Otherwise as in Allium. (Name from v66os, false, and vripdiov, 

 garlic.} 



1. N. bivilve (L.) Britton. Scape 1.5-3.5 dm. high; bulb small, often 

 bulbiferous at base ; leaves narrowly linear ; flowers few, on slender pedicels, 

 the segments narrowly oblong, about 1 cm. long ; ovules 4-7 in each cell. (.ZV. 

 striatum Kunth.) Prairies and open woods, Va. to O., Neb., and southw. 



15. HEMEROCALLIS L. DAY LILY 



Perianth funnel-form, lily-like ; the short tube inclosing the ovary, the 

 spreading limb 6-parted ; the 6 stamens inserted on its throat. Anthers as in 

 Lilium, but introrse. Filaments and style long and thread-like, declined and 

 ascending ; stigma simple. Capsule (at first rather fleshy) 3-angled, loculi- 

 cidally 3-valved, with several black spherical seeds in each cell. Showy 



