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3 or 2; pedicels 1-4 in. long. Flowers rose color or white, the seg- 
ments of the perianth becoming rigid in the fruit. On prairies W. 
and S.W. 
3. A. canadense L. Meapow Garuic. Bulbs ovoid, the outer 
coats of white and thin, dry, netted fibers. Leaves narrowly linear, 
flat, or concave above. Scape cylindrical, 1 ft. high. Bracts of the 
umbel 2-3, ovate, acuminate ; umbel consisting mostly of sessile bulb- 
lets. The few flowers long-pediceled, rose-colored. Perianth about 
as long as the stamens. Filaments dilated below. Capsule shorter 
than the perianth, 6-toothed, ovules 2 in each cell. On moist soil.* 
4. A. mutabile Michx. Witp Onton. Bulbs ovoid, their coats 
with a very prominent fibrous network. Leaves basal, channeled, 
narrowly linear. Scape 1-2 ft. high, bracts taper-pointed, pedicels 
almost 1 in. long. Umbel rarely bearing bulblets. Flowers pink, 
rose color, or white; segments of the perianth thin. In moist soil 
S.and W. 
5. A. vineale L. Frerp Gartic. Bulb mostly solitary. Leaves 
cylindrical, hollow, very slender. Scape slender, sheathed below the 
middle by the bases of the leaves. Umbels often crowded with 
bulblets. A troublesome weed in moist meadows and fields eastward, 
giving milk a strong flavor of onions or garlic. Naturalized from 
Europe. 
VII. NOTHOSCORDUM Kunth 
Scape-bearing herbs resembling A//iwm, but with no odor of 
onions. Flowers yellow or yellowish-green, in a loose, erect 
umbel, with 2 bracts. 
1. N. bivalve Britton. Bulb small, often with little bulbs at its 
base. Leaves narrowly linear. Scape not exceeding 1 ft. high, the 
umbel 2-bracted, pedicels thread-like, at length 1-2 in. long. Flowers 
4 in. long or less, the perianth segments narrowly oblong, thin. On 
prairies and in open woods. 
VI. HEMEROCALLIS L. 
Perennial, from a fascicle of fleshy roots. Stem erect, 
branched, smooth. Leaves mostly basal and linear. Flowers 
on branching scapes, large, yellow or orange, solitary or 
corymbed. Perianth funnelform, with a spreading limb much 
longer than the tube. Stamens 6, inserted in the top of the 
tube, shorter than the lobes, curved upward. Ovary 5-celled, 
many-ovuled; style longer than the stamens, curved upward ; 
stigma knobbed. Fruit a 3-celled, 3-angled capsule.* 
