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Smilacina (or False Solomon’ s-Seal). Smilacina. 
1. Racemed S. Minutely downy, 2° or 3° high, many-leaved ; leaves lance-oblong, tapering abruptly 
at both ends, ciliate ; flowers many, in compound racemes. Moist grounds. S. racemosct. 
2. Star-flowered S. Nearly smooth, 1° or 2° high; leaves many, lance-oblong, slightly clasping, 
pale beneath; raceme simple and few-flowered. Moist thickets, &c., N. S. stellata. 
3. Three-lea yed S. Smooth, 3 f to 6' high ; leaves commonly 3, oblong, tapering into a sheathing 
base ; flowers several, in a slender simple raceme. Bogs, N. 8. trifolia. 
4. Two-leaved S. Nearly smooth, 3' to 5' high, with commonly 2 heart-shaped leaves, the lower one 
generally petioled; flowers in a simple short raceme; perianth 4-parted, reflexed; stamens 4. 
Moist woods, in spring. 8. bifolia. 
Onion (Garlic and Leek). Allium. 
§ 1. Onion proper, with hollow, stem-shaped leaves, and an open, widely spreading, star-shaped blossom. 
1. Garden Onion. Scape naked, much longer than the leaves, hollow, swollen in the middle; 
flowers whitish; umbel often bearing small bulbs (top-onions); the large bulb turnip-shaped. 
Commonly cultivated. A. Cepa . 
2. Chives 0. Scape naked, about as long as the slender leaves; all growing in tufts, from small 
bulbs ; flowers purplish, crowded. Cultivated. A. Schoenoprasum. 
§ 2. Garlics and Leeks. Leaves flat or keeled and not hollow, except in No. 3. 
3. Field Garlic. Leaves thread-shaped, slender, round, but channelled on the upper side, hollow; 
bulbs small; umbel bearing flowers with a green-purple erectish perianth, or else only bulblets. 
Naturalized in low pastures and gardens. A. vineale. 
4. True or English Garlic. Bulbs clustered and compound ; leaves lance-linear, nearly flat; 
umbel bearing pale purple flowers with an erectish perianth, or else bulblets. Cultivated in gar- 
dens ; not common. Am sativum. 
6. Garden Leek. Bulb single ; leaves linear-oblong, acute, somewhat folded or keeled ; flowers 
crowded in the umbel ; perianth erectish, violet-purple. Rarely cultivated. A. Porrum. 
WlLD Leek. Bulbs clustered, narrow, oblong, and pointed; leaves lance-oblong, blunt, flat, dying 
off by midsummer, when the naked scape appears with its loose umbel of white flowers ; pod 
3-lobed. Rich woods, N. and W. A% tricdccum. 
Day-Lily. Hemerocallis. 
* Flowering stems tall, leafy towards the bottom, somewhat branched above: leaves long and linear, 
keeled, 2-ranked: stamens on the top of the narrow tube of the perianth: seeds black and wingless. 
L Common Day-Lily. Flower dull orange-yellow ; inner divisions wavy, blunt. Gardens. H.fulva. 
2. Yellow D. Flower light yellow ; inner divisions of the perianth acute. Gardens. B. flaw. 
* * Flowering stems naked, simple: leaves broad and flat, ovate or oblong, and often heart-shaped, 
with veins springing from the midrib, long-stalked ; stamens on the receptacle: seeds flat and 
winged ( Funkia ). 
3. White D. Flower white, funnel-shaped ; leaves more or less heart-shaped. Gardens. H. Japonic#,. 
4. Blue D. Flower blue or bluish, the upper part more bell-shaped than in No. 3; leaves scarcely 
heart-shaped. Gardens. jj 
