534 LILIACE^E. (LILY FAMILY.) 



coated bulb flowers in a simple umbel, some of them frequently changed to 

 bulblets ; spathe 1 - 2-valved. (The ancient Latin name of the Garlic.) 



* Ovules and seeds single in each cell: leaves broad and flat, appearing in early 



spring, and dying before the flowers are developed. 



1. A. tricoccum, Ait. (Wild Leek.) Scape naked (9' high from 

 clustered pointed bulbs, 2' long), bearing an erect many-flowered umbel ; leaves 

 lance-oblong (5'-9' long, l'-2' wide); sepals oblong (white), equalling the 

 simple filaments; pod strongly 3-lobed. — Rich woods, W. New England to 

 Wisconsin, Kentucky, and southward in the Alleghanies. July. 



* * Ovules mostly 2 in each cell : ovary crested ivith 6 teeth : leaves long and narrow. 



-t- Umbel bearing only flowers and ripening pods. 



2. A. c6rnuum, Roth. (Wild Onion.) Scape naked, angular (l°-2° 

 high), often nodding at the apex, bearing a loose or drooping many-flowered umbel; 

 leaves linear, sharply heeled (1° long); sepals oblong-ovate, acute (rose-color), 

 shorter than the simple slender filaments. — Steep banks, Western New York 

 to Wisconsin and southward. July, Aug. 



3. A. Stcllatum, Nutt. Scape terete, slender, bearing an erect umbel ; leaves 

 flat; sepals equalling the stamens: otherwise resembling the last, but usually 

 not so tall ; the pod more crested. Aug. — Rocky slopes, Illinois (Engelmann), 

 and northwestward. 



4. A. Schoenoprasum, L. (Chives.) Scape naked or leafy at the 

 base (6' - 12' high) bearing a globular capitate umbel of many rose-purple flowers ; 

 sepals lanceolate, pointed, longer than the simple downwardly dilated filaments ; 

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

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



-t- ■*- Umbel often densely bulb-bearing, with or without flowers. 



5. A. vineale, L. (Field Garlic.) Scape slender, clothed with the 

 sheathing bases of the leaves below the middle (l°-3° high) ; leaves terete and 

 hollow, slender, channelled above; filaments much dilated, the alternate ones 3-cleJl, 

 the middle division anther-bearing. — Moist meadows and fields: a vile weed 

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



6. A. Canadense, Kalm. (Wild Garlic.) Scape leafy only at the 

 base (1° high); leaves narrowly linear, flatfish ; umbel few-flowered ; filaments 

 simple, dilated below. — Moist meadows. May, June. — Flowers pale rose-color, 

 pcdicelled ; or a head of bulbs in their place. 



* * * Ovules several in each cell : leaves long and linear. (Nothdscordum, Kuntli.) 



7. A. Striatum, 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. 



25. MUSCAEI, Tourn. Grape-Hyacinth. 



Perianth globular or ovoid, minutely 6-toothed (blue). Stamens 6, included : 

 anthers short, introrse. Style short. Pod loculicidal, with 2 black angular 



