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CAMASSIA^ Lindl. Quamash. 



C. Fraseri, Torr. (Scilla Fraseri, Gray.) Eastern Quamash. Wild Hya- 

 cinth. 

 Blue Earth county, Leiberg; Martin county, Cratty. South, 



ALLIUM, L. Onion. Gaklic. 



A. tricoccum, Ait. Wild Leek. 



Throughout the state, excepting perhaps far northward; but mostly infrequent or 

 rare . Minnesota and St. Croix rivers, Parry ; upper Mississippi river, Garrison; Fer- 

 gus Falls, Leonard ; Minneapolis, W. H. Hatch, Roberts; Goodhue county, Sandberg; 

 Blue Earth county, Leiberg; New Ulm, Juni; Martin and Nobles counties, Gedge. [Em- 

 met county, Iowa (very rare), Cratty ; lake Superior, Whitney] 



A. cerniiuni. Roth. Wild Onion. 



Common throughout the prairie portion of the state ; also found at the lake of the 

 Woods, Dawson. (The umbel is refiexed until flowering, but then usually becomes 

 erect.) 



A. stellatum, Fras. Wild Onion, 



Upper Minnesota river, Oeyer; Tracy, Lyon ceunty, Gedge; Minneapolis, Griswold; 

 lake Pepin, Miss Manning-, Stearns county. Garrison; Alexandria, Mrs. Terry. Eare. 



A. reticulatuni , Fras.* Wild Onion. 



Eed river valley,Scoit, determined by Mr, Sereno Watson. West. 



A. Schoenoprasimi, L. Chives. 



Northeastward. Clarh; Stearns county, Mrs. Blaisdell; upper Mississippi rivei', Gar- 

 rison. [Manitoba, Macoun.] North. 



A. Canadeiise, Kalm. Wild Garlic. 



Common or frequent, through the south part of the state ; extending west to Wor- 

 thingcon, Foote, and Pipestone county, Mi-^. Bennett, and north to Minneapolis and 

 Big Stone lake, Upham. 



JUNCACE^. EusH Family. 



liUZUIiA, DC, Wood-Rush. 



L . pilosa, Willd . Wood-R ush . 



Lake Pepin, Miss Manning. [Manitoba, Macoun.} Probably common northward. 



terranean sheathed portion of the scape (which is commonly five or six inches long), 

 remote from the parent bulb, usually about mid-way between it and the bases or ap- 

 parent insertion of the pair of leaves : this lateral offshoot grows downward, some- 

 times lengthening as in the foregoing species, sometimes remaining short, and its apex 

 dilates into the new bulb. . . . Scape bulbifei'ous from its sheathed portion below 

 the developed leaves ; these oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly mottled ; perianth 

 rose-purple or pink (half an inch long) ; the segments acute, all with a yellow spot but 

 plane at the base, the inner like the outer destitute of either groove or tootfe-Iike appen- 

 dages, but a little more narrowed at base ; anthers merely oblong ; style hardly at all 

 narrowed downward, entire, the small stigma even barely three-lobed; ovules few 

 (4 to 6) in each cell. Gray in American Naturalist, vol. v. 



*AlI;Ifm beticulatum, Fras. Coats densely fibrous ; scape 3 to 8 inches high, sub- 

 terete ; leaves very narrowly linear, elongated ; spathe usually 2-valved ; umbel many- 

 flowered, spreading : pedicels usually short (2 to 6 lines long) ; stamens and style shorter 

 than the usually acute (3 to 4 lines long) white or slightly pinkish sepals ; crest mostly 

 short. Watson's Revision of Allium in King's Expl. of the Fortieth Parallel, and his 

 Revision of the North American Liliacece, Proc. Amer. Acad., xiv. 



