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3 or 2 ; pedicels |-J 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. Meadow Garlic. 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 shoi'ter 

 than the perianth, 6-toothed, ovules 2 in each cell. On moist soil.* 



4. A. mutabile Jlichx. Wild Onion. 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. Field Garlic. 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 Allium, 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 

 ^ in. long or less, the perianth segments narrowly oblong, thin. On 

 prairies and in open woods. 



Vm. 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 3-celled, 

 many-ovuled; style longer than the stamens, curved upward; 

 stigma knobbed. Fruit a 3-celled, 3-angled capsule.* 



