April, 1913.] 
Liliales of Ohio. 
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1. Erythronium americanum Ker. Yellow Dog-tooth Lily. 
A bulbous "herb with green leaves mottled with purple and white; 
perianth yellow; style club-shaped; stigmas 3, united. In woods 
and thickets. General. 
2. Erythronium albidum Nutt. White Dog-tooth Lily. 
Leaves somewhat narrower than the preceding species, not so 
much spotted; perianth white, pinkish or bluish-pink; stigmas 
spreading. General. 
4. Hemerocallis L. Day-lily. 
Showy perennials with flberous, fleshy roots, and two-ranked, 
linear leaves at the base of the tall scapes. Scape many flowered, 
each flower having a bract and remaining open but for one day; 
perianth funnel-form, the lobes longer than the tube; stamens 
united with the tube, anthers introrse, filaments long and thread¬ 
like; style long, stigma simple. 
1. Hemerocallis fulva L. Common Day-lily. Scape 3-6 
feet tall; leaves channeled; flowers 6-18, short pedicelled, tawny 
orange. Escaped. General. 
5. Allium L. Onion. Leek. Garlic. 
Herbs with alliaceous odor, arising from solitary or clustered 
bulbs. Leaves narrowly linear, or rarely lanceolate; scape simple 
and erect; flowers small, in umbels; perianth white, pink, purple, 
green; parts distinct, or united at the very base; style persistent, 
and thread-like; capsule lobed; seeds black. 
1. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, not present at the time of flowering; capsule 
strongly 3-lobed. A. tricoccum. 
1. Leaves linear or elongated, present at the time of flowering. 2. 
2. Leaves hollow, terete or nearly so. 3. 
2. Leaves solid. 4. 
3. Stem leafy to above the middle; leaves thread-like, grooved down the 
upper side. A. vineale. 
3. Stem leafy only near the base; leaves usually broad, not definitely 
grooved, flowers white. A. cepa. 
4. Scape terete, not angular, umbels erect, with bulblets, ovulary not 
crested. A. canadense. 
4. Scape angular, umbels nodding without bulblets, ovulary and capsule 
crested. A. cernuum. 
1. Allium tricoccum Ait. Wild Leek. An herb with clus¬ 
tered ovoid bulbs and with oblong lanceolate leaves, withering 
before flowering time. Leaves 6-12 in. long; tapering into a long 
petiole; scape 4-6 in. tall; umbels bracteolate, many flowered, 
erect; flowers white; perianth segments oblong, of about the same 
length as the filaments; capsule 3-lobed. In woods. West 
central part of the state to Franklin and Delaware. Also in 
Lorain, Cuyahoga and Medina. 
2. Allium vineale L. Field Garlic. A slender herb with a 
stem 1-3 feet high sheathed by the bases of the leaves below the 
