LILY FAMILY. Liliacest. 



A slender ornamental plant of Europe, 

 Star=of=BethIe= ^ „ , rpi ■, i 



i^gj^ escaped from gardens. The dark green 



OrnithoqaJniii leaves are narrow and linear, and the 

 umbeUatum flowers are borne in a branched cluster ; 

 ^*^'*^ they are white inside, green-lined outside. 



ay- une and they open only in the sunshine. Name 



from the Greek, meaning bird's milk, supposed to al- 

 lude to the egg-white color of the flower. 4-12 inches 

 high. Found most often in fields and meadows near 

 farm-houses. Mass. to Pa. and Va. 



WMd L k ^^^ spring the wild leek develops two or 



Allium tricoc- three light green, flat, oblong-lance-shaped 

 cum leaves 8-10 inches long, and about 1 inch 



Greenish white wide or more, and by summertime when 

 une- u y these are withered, the white or greenish 



white flowers begin to bloom, in a spokelike cluster from 

 a spathe or leaflets at the top of a naked stem. The 

 perfect flowers with stamens and pistil, are six-parted, 

 with six green-white sepals. The flowers are rich honey- 

 bearers and undoubtedly are mostlij fertilized by bees. 

 It is an onion-scented herb whose name is the Latin for 

 garlic, and it is not remarkable for its beauty. It grows 

 4-15 inches high, in rich woodlands from west N. E., 

 west to Minn, and Iowa, and south among the Alle- 

 ghanies to N. Car. 



„,., . ^ ,. A more commonlv distributed, ex- 



Wild Garlic " ' 



Allium Cana- tremely narrow-leaved species frequenting 



dense wet meadows, the flower-cluster of which 



Pale pink or jg sparse in bloom or else is replaced by a 



^ ' ^, thick cluster of bulblets— a frequent oc- 



May-June . , ,^. m., /, 



currence with Allium. The flowers sepals 



are narrow and obtuse, and quite as long as the stamens. 



8-24 inches high. Me. to Minn., and south to the Gulf. 



The Alliums are mostly assisted by flies, bees, moths, 



and butterflies in the process of fertilization. 



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