Tl.end.ph. 15. ASPHODELEiE. 121. Cepa. 185 
Moly montanum tertium Clusii, Ger. em. 188. 
Allium oleraceum, JLzn. S. P. 429. 
Allium virens, Lamarck Enc. Meth. 1, 67. 
Allium virescens, Lamarck FI. Fr. 3,259. 
Allium parviflorum, Thuill. Paris. 
Edges of fields; perennial; July. 
Bulbs ovate; scape upright, 2 or 3 feet high, slender; 
leaves slender above, channelled, acute ; spathe bellied at 
bottom, attenuated, much longer than the umbells; flowers 
few, campanulate, greenish purple. 
c. Leaves flat, cauline . 
5. Cepa car mat a. Keeled onion . 
IJmbells bulb-bearing, fewflowered ; leaves linear, keeled ; 
spathe very long, unequal, 2-horned, acute. 
Allium montanum bicorne purpureum proliferum, Raii Syn. 369, 2. 
Moly montanum secundum Clusii, Ger. em. 187. 
Allium carinatum, Lin. S. P. 426. 
Mountain garlick. 
Rocks and mountains ; perennial ; July. 
Root and plant scentless ; stem upright, 4 feet high ; leaves 
slender, flat, obtuse, very longly sheathing ; spathe leafy ; 
umbells fewflowered ; flowers dull brownish purple. 
Fam. XI. 16. ASPARAGI. 
Perigonium petaloid, 6-sepaled, regular; stamens 6, at 
the base of the sepales ; anthers upright, peltate ; ovary 
free, 3-celled ; cells 2-seeded ; style 1 ; stigmata 3 ; berry 
3-celled ; seeds few, subglobose, affixed to the inner angles 
of the cells; spermodermis simple, black, crustaceous, brittle; 
perisperm cartilaginous, hard ; corculum curved, transverse, 
opposite to the umbilicus. — Plant herbaceous or shrubby; 
leaves bundled, linear, inclosed at bottom in a sheathing 
stipule; flowers axillary, white. 
I. 122. ASPARAGUS. Dioscorides. Spearage. 
Perigonium 6-sepaled ; sepales connivent at bottom ; sta- 
mens 6 ; filaments awlshape, bald; style short; 3-furrowed. 
Asparagus officinalis. Common spearage. 
Stem herbaceous, round, very branchy; leaves bristlelike, 
bundled; flowers often abortive, diclinous; peduncle jointed 
in the middle. 
Asparagus maritimus crassiore folio, Raii Syn. 267,2. 
Asparagus palustris, Ger. em. 1111. 
Asparagus officinalis, Lin. S. P. 448. 
Sea-side) perennial; July. 
