POPULAR FLORA. 211 
Smilacina (or Fausz Sotomon’s-SEAu). Smilacina. 
1. Racemep §. Minutely downy, 2° or 8° high, many-leaved; leaves lance-oblong, tapering abruptly 
at both ends, ciliate; flowers many, in compound racemes. Moist grounds. S, racemosa. 
2. STAR-FLOWERED §. Nearly smooth, 1° or 2° high; leaves many, lance-oblong, slightly clasping, 
pale beneath; raceme simple and few-flowered. Moist thickets, &c., N. 8. stellata. 
8. THREE-LEAVED S. Smooth, 3! to 6 high; leaves commonly 8, oblong, tapering into a sheathing 
base; flowers several, in a slender simple raceme. Bogs, N. 8. trifolia, 
4. TWo-LEAVED §. Nearly smooth, 3! to 5’ high, with commonly 2 heart-shaped leaves, the lower one 
generally petioled; flowers in a simple short raceme; perianth 4-parted, reflexed; stamens 4, 
Moist woods, in spring. 8. bifolia. 
Onion (GaRuic and LEEK). Allium. 
$1. Onton proper, with hollow, stem-shaped leaves, and an open, widely spreading, star-shaped blossom. 
1, GARDEN Onton. Scape naked, much longer than the leaves, hollow, swollen in the middle; 
flowers whitish; umbel often bearing small bulbs (top-onions); the large bulb turnip-shaped. 
Commonly cultivated. A. Cepa. 
2. Cutves O. Scape naked, about as long as the slender leaves; all growing in tufts, from small 
bulbs; flowers purplish, erowdedl Cultivated. A. Schenoprasum. 
§ 2. Gartics and LEEks. Leaves flat or keeled and not hollow, except in No. 3. 
8. Fretp Garuic. Leaves thread-shaped, slender, round, but channelled on the upper side, hollow; 
bulbs small; umbel bearing flowers with a green-purple erectish perianth, or else only bulblets. 
Naturalized in low pastures and gardens. A. vinedle. 
4. TruE or Encrisn Garuic. Bulbs clustered and compound ; leaves lance-linear, nearly flat; 
umbel bearing pale purple flowers with an erectish perianth, or else bulblets. Cultivated in gar- 
dens; not common. A, sativum, 
5. GARDEN LEEK. Bulb single ; leaves linear-oblong, acute, somewhat folded or keeled ; flowers 
crowded in the umbel; perianth erectish, violet-purple. Rarely cultivated. A. Porrum. 
6. Witp Leex. Bulbs clustered, narrow, oblong, and pointed; leaves Jance-oblong, blunt, flat, dying 
off by midsummer, when the naked scape appears with its loose umbel of white flowers; pod 
8-lobed. Rich woods, N. and W. A, tricéccum. 
Day-Lily. Hemerocdllis. 
* Flowering stems tall, leafy towards the bottom, somewhat branched above: leaves long and linear, 
keeled, 2-ranked: stamens on the top of the narrow tube of the perianth: seeds black and wingless. 
1. Common Day-Lity. Flower dull orange-yellow; inner divisions wavy, blunt. Gardens. H. fulva. 
2. YeLtow D. Flower light yellow; inner divisions of the perianth acute. Gardens. A. flava. 
* * Flowering stems naked, simple: leaves broad and flat, ovate or oblong, and often heart-shaped, 
with veins springing from the midrib, long-stalked ; stamens on the receptacle: seeds flat and 
winged (Funkia). 
8. WuiTe D. Flower white, funnel-shaped; leaves more or less heart-shaped. Gardens. H. Japénica. 
4, Buuz D. Flower blue or bluish, the upper part more bell-shaped than in No. 3; leaves scarcely 
heart-shaped. Gardens. Z. cerilea. 
