•534 LILIACE^E. (LILY FAMILY.) 



coated bulb flowers in a simple umbel, some of them frequently changed to 

 bulblets ; spathe 1 - 2-valved. (The ancient Latin name of the Garlic.) 



* Ovules and seeds sinyle in each cell : leaves broad and flat, appearing in early 



spring, and dying before the flowers are developed. 



1. A. tricoCCUm, Ait. (Wild Leek.) Scape naked (9 ; high from 

 clustered pointed bulbs, 2' long), bearing an erect many-flowered umbel ; leaves 

 lance-oblong (5'- 9' long, l'-2' wide); sepals oblong (white), equalling the 

 simple filaments; pod strongly 3-lobed. — Rich woods, W. New England to 

 Wisconsin, Kentucky, and southward in the Alleghanies. July. 



* # Ovules mostly 2 in each cell : ovary crested with 6 teeth : leaves long and narrow. 



■+- Umbel bearing only flowers and ripening pods. 



2. A. C^rnuum, Roth. (Wild Onion.) Scape naked, angular (l°-2° 

 high), often nodding at the apex, bearing a loose or drooping many-flowered umbel; 

 leaves linear, sharply keeled (1° long); sepals oblong-ovate, acute (rose-color), 

 shorter than the simple slender filaments. — Steep banks, Western New York 

 to Wisconsin and southward. July, Aug. 



3. A. Stellatum, Nutt. Scape terete, slender, bearing an erect umbel ; leaves 

 flat; sepals equalling the stamens: otherwise resembling the last, but usually 

 not so tall ; the pod more crested. Aug. — Rocky slopes, Illinois (Engehnann), 

 and northwestward. 



4. A. Schoenoprasum, L. (Chives.) Scape naked or leafy at the 

 base (6'- 12' high) bearing a globular capitate umbel of many rose-purple flowers; 

 sepals lanceolate, pointed, longer than the simple downwardly dilated filaments ; 

 leaves awl-shaped, hollow. Var. with recurved tips to the sepals (A. Sibiricum, 

 L.) — Shore of Lakes Huron, Superior, and northward. (Eu.) 



-i- ■*- Umbel often densely bulb-bearing, with or to ithout flowers. 



5. A. vlneale, L. (Field Garlic.) Scape slender, clothed with the 

 sheathing bases of the leaves below the middle (l°-3° high) ; leaves terete ana 

 hollow, slender, channelled above ; fllaments much dilated, the alternate ones 3-cle/l, 

 the middle division anther-bearing. — Moist meadows and fields : a vile weed 

 eastward. June. — Flowers rose-color and green. (Nat. from Eu.) 



6. A. Canadense, Kalm. (Wild Garlic.) Scape leafy only at the 

 base (1° high); leaves narrowly linear, flattish ; umbel few-flowered ; fllaments 

 simple, dilated below. — Moist meadows. May, June. — Flowers pale rose-color, 

 pedicelled ; or a head of bulbs in their place. 



* * * Ovules several, in each cell : leaves long and linear. (Nothdscordum, Kunth.) 



7. A. Striatum, Jacq. Leaves narrowly linear, often convolute, striate on 

 the back, about the length of the obscurely 3-angled naked scape (6' - 12' long) , 

 filaments dilated below, shorter than the narrowly oblong sepals (which are 

 white with a reddish keel) ; ovules 4 - 7 in each cell. — Prairies and open woods, 

 Virginia to Illinois and southward. May. 



25. MUSCARI, Tourn. Grape-Hyacinth. 



Perianth globular or ovoid, minutely 6-toothed (blue). Stamens 6, included : 

 anthers short, introrse. Style short. Pod loculicidal, with 2 black angular 



