380 LILIACE^E. 



rose-color. The variety with white flowers grows abundantly in steep ro-ky 

 places along the Susquehanna. The plant is very strong-scented. 



4. A. TRICOCCUM, Ait. Wild Leek. Lance-lcavcd Garlic. 



Scape naked, bearing an erect many-flowered umbel ; leaves lanee-oblong or ellip- 

 tical, flat; tepais obtuse, oblong; cnpmle strongly 3-loV> 



Rich shaded sandy wood*. rar<>. July. BuBu clustered.' poin J *l. 2 inct1°s long. 

 Leaves 5 to 10 inches long. 1 to \\4 * ncn w >d?, acute, tapering into a peti »le. ap- 

 pearing iu early spring nnd decaying before flowering. 5; ipz 12 to 15 inches high, 

 bearins a thin 2-leaved deciduous spathc at the top, with an umbel of 10 to 2C 

 •white flowers. 



5; A. TRIFLORUM, Raf. Mountain Leek. 

 Scape naked, terete, shorter than the leave*; lea.ez larreeclnte, nerved ; wnlei 

 fffw-flowered. Pursh. 



Mountains, rare. May, June. 



Cl'Lin\iTED EJTCTIC SPECIES. 



6. A. sativum, L. Common Garlic. 



Bulb compound ; stem leafy, bulbifercus ; stamens tvicuspidatd. Native cf Sicily 

 July. Stem 3 feet high. Flowers small, white. Bulbs strong-scented and acrid. 



7. A. Scikencprasum, L. Chives. Give*. 



Sccpe as long as the reuad subulate leavca. FToioert small, rosceclcr. June. 

 Ccmmon in gardens. 



8. A. Pop.ru m, L. Leek. 



f$em compressed, leafy; leaves sheathing at base; stamens tricuspidate. - Native 

 of Switzerland. July. Root bearing a scaly cylindrical- bulb. Siefn 2 feet high, 

 bearing long linear alternate sheathing leaves, and at the top a large umbjl of 

 email white flowers. 



9. A. Cepa, L. Common Onion. 



Scape fistulous, swelling towards the baee, longer than the terete fistulous leaves, . 

 Native of Hungary. Universally cultivated fc* the Lit:henj Culture- has pro- 

 duced numerous varieties. 



11. HYACINTHUS,,Linn. Hyacinth. 



A fabulous nairre. 



Perianth sub- globose or bell-shaped, regular G-cleft. 

 Stamens 6, issuing from the middle of the segments. 

 Ovary with 3 necterifercus pores at the summit. Capsule 

 8-celled, about 2-seeded.' — Ornamental ctdbou* plants, native 

 of the Levant, with fragrant wkitt, pink Hue and purple 

 flowers. 



H. ORlENTALis, L.< Common Huacinth. 



Perianth funnel-form, half 6-cleft, swelted at the base. , May. The hyacinth U 

 *well known garden flower, long prized and cultivated. Leaves thick, lineax- 

 Sanceolate, 3 to 6 inches long. Scape 5 to 10 inches high, thick, bearing a dense 

 Sfejrraoid raceme of different ihadesof blue, pink, purple or white fragrant flovrera. 



