Tl,end.ph. 15. ASPHOBELEi^. 121. Cepa. 185 



Moly montanum tertium Clusii, Ger, em. 188. 

 Allium oleraceum, Lin. S. P. 429. 

 Allium virens, Lamarck Enc. Meth. 1, 67. 

 Allium virescens, Lamarck Fl. Fr, 3,259. 

 Allium parviflorum, Thuill. Paris. 



Edges of fields ; perennial ; July. 



Bulbs ovate; scape upright, 2 or 3 feet high, slender; 

 leaves slender above, channelled, acute; spathe bellied at 

 bottom, attenuated, much longer than the umbells; floivers 

 few, campanulate, greenish purple. 



c. heaves fiat ^ cauline. 



5. Cepa carinata. Keeled onion. 



Vmbells bulb-bearing, fewflowered ; leaves linear, keeled ; 

 spathe very long, unequal, 2-horned, acute. 



Allium montanum bicorne purpureum proliferum, Eaii Syn. 369, 2. 

 Moly montanum secundum Clusii, Ger. em. 187. 

 Allium carinatum, Lin, S, P. 426. 

 Mountain garlick. 



Rocks and mountains; perennial; July. 



Root and plant scentless ; stem upright, 4 feet high ; leaves 

 slender, flat, obtuse, very longly sheathing ; spathe leafy ; 

 umbells fewflowered ; fioivers dull brownish purple. 



Fam. Xr. 16. ASPARAGI. 



P.erigonium petaloid, 6-sepaled, regular; stamens 6, at 

 the base of the sepales ; anthers upright, peltate ; ovary 

 free, 3-celled; cells 2-seeded; style 1; stigmata S; berry 

 3-celled ; seeds few, subglobose, affixed to the inner angles 

 of the cells; spermodermis simple, black, crustaceous, brittle; 

 perisperm cartilaginous, hard ; corculvm curved, transverse, • 

 opposite to the umbilicus. — Plant herbaceous or shrubby ; 

 leaves bundled, linear, inclosed at bottom in a sheathing 

 stipule ; flowers axillary, white. 



I. 122. ASPARAGUS. Dioscorides. Spearage. 



Perigonium 6-sepaled ; sepales connivent at bottom ; 5/0- 



mens 6 ; filaments awlshape, bald; style short; 3-furrowed. 



Asparagus officinalis. Common spearage. 



Stem herbaceous, round, very branchy; leaves bristle] ike, 

 bundled ; fiowers often abortive, diclinous ; peduncle jointed 

 in the middle. 



Asparaacus maritimus crassiore folio, Rmi Syn, 267,2. 

 Asparagus pahistrrs, Ger. em. 1111. 

 Asparagus officinalis, Lin. S, P. 448. 



Sea-side; perennial; July. 



