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LILIACE.E. 



Ornithogalum. 



Bulb small, ovoid. Leaves all radical, linear, channelled, smooth. Scape about a span 

 high, 6 - 8-flowered. Pedicels 1-2 inches long, each with a lanceolate bract at the base. 

 Segments of the perianth oblong-lanceolate, white inside, green bordered with white externally. 

 Stamens shorter than the perianth. Capsule obtusely triangular and somewhat turbinate. 



Moist meadows, and borders of fields : frequent in the southern part of the State. Fl. 

 May - June. Introduced from Europe. 



4. ALLIUM. Linn.; Endl. gen. 1137. ONION, garlic, q-c. 



[Said to be from the Celtic word all ; signifying hot or acrid.] 



Perianth 6-leaved or deeply 6-parted, spreading or campanulate ; the segments equal, one- 

 nerved. Stamens 6 : filaments often tricuspidate. Ovary 3-celled, with few (2, very 

 rarely 3-6) amphitropous ovules in each cell : style filiform : stigma simple. Capsule 

 3- (or sometimes one-) celled, loculicidal. Seeds solitary or very few in each cell, ovoid- 

 reniform, black and rough. Embryo curved. — Herbs with a rank odor, springing from 

 bulbs. Leaves mostly radical, fistular or flat. Flowers in a terminal umbel, which is sub- 

 tended by a 1 - 2-valved spatha. 



1. Allium Canadense, Kalm. Meadow Garlic. 



Stem terete, leafy at the base ; leaves linear, flat ; umbel few-flowered, bulbiferous ; fila- 

 ments simple, about as long as the perianth. — Linn. sp. 2. p. 1195 ; Michx.fl. 1. p. 194?; 

 Pursh, fl. 1. p. 223; Ell. sk. 1. p. 385; Torr. fl. 1. p. 340; Bigel. ft. Bost. p. 130; 

 Beck, hot. p. 363 ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 217; Kunth, enum. p. 450. 



Bulb ovoid, small. Stem 12- 18 inches high, leafy only at the base. Leaves 8-12 

 inches long, about 2 lines wide, rather obtuse, flattish above, slightly convex underneath. 

 Spathe of 2 broadly ovate acuminate leaves. Umbel sometimes consisting almost wholly of 

 densely aggregated ovoid bulbs, but usually bearing flowers also. Pedicels half an inch long. 

 Perianth pale rose-color ; the leaflets oblong-lanceolate. Filaments much dilated at the base. 

 Style slender : stigma simple, minute. 



Moist meadows : not common. Fl. May - June. 



2. Allium vineale, Linn. Wild Garlic. Field Garlic. 



Stem somewhat leafy ; leaves terete, fistulous, channelled above ; umbel often bulbiferous ; 

 stamens longer than the perianth ; filaments alternately tricuspidate, the middle cusp bearing 

 an anther. — Linn. sp. 1. p. 299; Engl. hot. t. 1974; Pursh, fl. 1. p. 222; Torr. fl. 1. 

 p. 340 ; Beck, bot. p. 363 ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 215 ; Kunth, enum. 4. p. 382. 



Bulb ovoid, the size of a hazel nut. Stem 1^-3 feet high, slender, smooth, leafy to about 

 the middle. Spathe of two small deciduous leaves. Umbel sometimes bearing bulbs only, 

 but usually producing also several pedicellate flowers ; the pedicels slender, 4-6 lines long. 



