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Banks of Seneca lake, N. Y., W. to Ohio, Lock ! and Wis., Lapham ! Bulb 

 6 8" diam. Scape mostly 4-angled, smooth, slender, 15 24' high, recurved 

 at top. Umbel 12 20-flo\vered. Pedicels 7 8" long. Flowers rose-colored. 

 Ovary 6-toothed, becoming a roundish, 3-seeded capsule. July. 



5. A. TRIFLORUM. Pursh. Few-flowered Leek. Mountain Leek. 



Scape naked, terete, shorter than the leaves ; Ivs. lanceolate, veined ; um- 

 bel few-flowered. In shady woods on the high mountains of Pennsylvania, 

 Pursh. May, June. 



6. A. SCH-ENOPRASUM. Gives. Scape equaling the round, subulate leaves; 

 Gr. sxotvos, a rush, and npaaor, a leek. The leaves resemble rush-leaves. Jn. 



7. A. ASCALONICUM. Shallot. Scape terete ; Ivs. subulate ; umbel globose ; 

 sta. tricuspidate. Native about Ascalon, Palestine. It has a soboliferous bulb, 

 small, fistulous leaves, and seldom flowers. July. 



8. A. PORRUM. Leek. St. compressed, leafy ; Ivs. sheathing at base ; sta. tri- 

 cuspidate. Native of Switzerland. Root bearing a scaly, cylindrical bulb. 

 Stem 2f high, bearing long, linear, alternate, sheathing leaves, and at the top, 

 a large umbel of small, white flowers. July. 



9. A. SATlvuM. Common Garlic. Bulb compound ; st. leafy, bulbiferous ; 

 sta. tricuspidate. Native of Sicily. The bulb is composed of several smaller 

 wies surrounded by a common membrane, acrid and very strong-scented. Stem 

 !tf high. Flowers small, white. Used as seasoning and sometimes in medi- 

 cine. July. 



10. A. PROLIFERUM. Scape fistulous, twisted ; Ivs. fistulous ; umbels bulbifer- 

 ous and proliferous ; sta. tricuspidate, the middle point antheriferous. A curi- 

 ous species, native of the W. Indies. Scape 2 3f high, producing several 

 bulbs among, or instead of, the white flowers. July. 



11. A. CEPA. Common Onion. Scape fistulous, swelling towards the base, 

 longer than the terete, fistulous leaves. (g) Cep, in the Celtic, signifies a head. 

 Native of Hungary. The root bears a tunicated bulb, compressed, or round, 

 or oblong in figure. The scape, which appears the second year, is 3 4f high, 

 straight, smooth, stout, bearing at top a large, round umbel of greenish-white 

 flowers. Universally cultivated for the kitchen, and its peculiar merits as a 

 pot-herb are, no doubt, well known to our readers. Culture has produced nu- 

 merous varieties. 



8. ORNITHOGALUM. 



Gr. opv&os, a bird, yoXa, milk; why so called is not obvious. 



Perianth deeply 6-parted, spreading above the middle ; filaments 

 dilated at the base ; capsule roundish, angular. Lvs. radical. Scape 

 naked, racemose or corymbose. 



O. UMBELLATUM. Star-of- Bethlehem. Fls. corymbose; ped. longer than 

 bracts ; JU. subulate. 7J. From England, but naturalized in many parts of this 

 country. Leaves linear and narrow, emarginate, as long as the scape. Scape 

 near a foot high. Flowers few, in a kind of loose corymb. Petals and sepals 

 white, beautifully marked with a longitudinal green stripe on the outside. May. 



9. HYACINTHUS. 



Hyacinthus of Grecian fable, was killed by Zephyrua, and transformed into this flower. 



Perianth subglobose or campanulate, regular, 6-clef t ; 3 nectarifer- 

 ous pores at the top of the ovary ; stamens issuing from the middle 

 of the segments j cells of the capsule about 2-seeded. Natives of 

 the Levant. 



H. ORIENTALIS. Perianth funnel-form, half 6-cleft, ventricose at the 

 base. 1$. The hyacinth is a well known, splendid flower, long prized and cul- 

 tivated. Leaves thick, linear-lanceolate, 3 5' long. Scape twice as long as 

 the leaves, thick, bearing a dense, thyrsoid raceme of numerous blue flowers. 

 A plant peculiarly adapted to parlor cultivation in bulb glasses. 

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