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Underneath. Flowers small, white, growing in little tufts or 

 imperfect umbels, which are nearly sessile in the axils of the 

 leaves. Calyx small, six cleft, persistent. Corolla monopeta- 

 lous, spreading, without a tube, the border divided into six obtuse 

 segments. Stamens erect, with oblong anthers. In the barren 

 flowers they are equal in length to the corolla, in the fertile ones 

 shorter. Germ in the fertile flowers large, green, roundish, with 

 a short neck or style, terminating in an obtuse stigma. Berries 

 of a bright scarlet, in irregular bunches, roundish, supported by 

 the persistent calyx, crowned with the stigma, six celled, con- 

 taining six long seeds, which are convex outwardly, and sharp 

 edged within. These berries are bitter and unpleasant to the 

 taste, with a little sweetness and some acrimony. — Swamps. — 

 July. 



Prinos ambiguus. 3Ix. Lo7ig leaved Black Alder. 



Leaves deciduous, oval, acute at both ends, barren 

 flowers crowded, fertile ones solitary. 



Leaves more oblong, and less sharply serrate than in the last. 

 Flowers often four or five cleft. — Roxbury. — June. 



Prinos glaber. L. Evei-grcen Winter herry. 



Leaves wedge-lanceolate, glabrous, serrate at tip. 



Distinguished from the former by its smooth coriaceous, ever- 

 green leaves, which are of a bluntish lanceolate form, with a few 

 small remote teeth at the end. Flowers axillary. — Swamps. — 

 Manchester, Abingdon, — June, July. 



149. ALLIUM. 

 AlliUxM Canadense. L. Canada Garlic. 



>Scape naked, round ; leaves liuear ; head bearing 

 bulbs. 



Leaves radical, smooth, channelled above. Scape smooth, 

 round. Spathe ovate, acute. The scape supports a head of 

 bulbs with a short leaf under each, and a few pedunculated 

 whitish flowers. — Woods, Chelsea beach island. — June, — Pe- 

 rennial .r 



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