l68 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



cultivated onion. Unfortunately the Jamiliar, onion-like smell 

 belongs to the wild leel<, which otherwise is not lacking in pre- 

 tensions to beauty. New Brunswick to North Carolina and Ten- 

 nessee. Scape 4 to 15 inches high. 



55. Wild Garlic 



A. Canadense grows from a single bulb to the height of a 

 foot or more. Small bulbs often replace the pink or white 

 flowers. 



56. Field Garlic. Crow Garlic 



A. vineale is taller, 2 or 3 feet in height. The umbel of 

 blossoms has a strong smell. The narrow leaves of this are 

 somewhat channelled. Small bulbs, tipped with a fine hair, 

 sometimes displace the green or purple flowers, which grow 

 on a scape, leafless above, and covered with the sheathing 

 leaves below. 



57. Large Purple-fringed Orchis 



Habendria grandiflora, or fimbriata. — Family, Orchid. Col- 

 or, Wght purple, sometimes white. Z^«7/^j', lance -shaped to 

 oval, their bases sheathing the stem, the lower 4 to 10 inches 

 long, upper smaller, acute at apex. Tz'ot^, June to August. 



The large lip 3-parted and much fringed, prolonged into a 

 long, thread-like spur. Upper sepals and petals toothed, 

 joined together. Flowers fragrant, large, the lips often i inch 

 long, in dense racemes. Stem i to 5 feet high. 



No richer- hued or more queenly flower rewards the seeker 

 after our native orchids. Range from Nova Scotia and New 

 England to North Carolina, westward to Michigan, in meadows 

 and rich woods. 



58. Wild Yellow Lily. Canada Lily. Meadow Lily 



Lilium Canadense. — Family, Lily. Color, yellow, dotted 

 with brown. Leaves, rough on margins and veins underneath, 

 lance-shaped, or somewhat oblong, in whorls of 4 to 10 

 around the stem. Time, June, July. 



