3. A. cérnuum, Roth. (Wild Onion.) Scape naked, angular (½–2° high), nodding at the apex, bearing a loose or drooping few–many-flowered umbel; leaves linear, flattened, sharply keeled (1° long); sepals oblong-ovate, acute (rose-color), shorter than the slender filaments and style; capsule 6-crested.—In the Alleghanies to S. C., west to Minn., Mo., Tex., and westward.
§ 2. Bulbs mostly solitary, not rhizomatous; coats often fibrous; leaves narrowly linear, flat or channelled (terete in A. vineale).
4. A. stellàtum, Nutt. Scape terete (6–18´ high), slender, bearing an erect umbel; bulb-coats membranous; sepals broad, acute; stamens and style exserted; capsule prominently 6-crested.—Rocky slopes, Minn. to W. Ill. and Mo., and westward.
5. A. reticulàtum, Fraser. Scape 3–8´ high; bulbs densely and coarsely fibrous-coated; spathe 2-valved; umbel rarely bulbiferous; sepals ovate- to narrowly lanceolate, thin and lax in fruit, a third longer than the stamens; capsule crested.—Sask. to Iowa and N. Mex.
6. A. Nuttállii, Watson. Scape 4–6° high, from a very fibrous-coated bulb; spathe usually 3-valved; sepals usually broader, rather rigid in fruit; capsule not crested.—Central Kan. to Tex., and westward.
7. A. Canadénse, Kalm. (Wild Garlic.) Scape 1° high or more; bulb-coats somewhat fibrous; umbel densely bulbiferous or few-flowered; sepals narrowly lanceolate, obtusish, equalling or exceeding the stamens; capsule not crested.—Moist meadows, N. Eng. to Minn., south to the Gulf. May, June.
A. vineàle, L. (Field Garlic.) Scape slender, clothed with the sheathing bases of the leaves below the middle (1–3° high); leaves terete and hollow, slender, channelled above; umbel often densely bulbiferous; filaments much dilated, the alternate ones cuspidate on each side of the anther.—Moist meadows and fields; a vile weed eastward. June. (Nat. from Eu.)
3. NOTHÓSCORDUM, Kunth.
Flowers greenish or yellowish white. Capsule oblong-obovate, somewhat lobed, obtuse, with the style obscurely jointed on the summit; cells several-ovuled and -seeded. Filaments filiform, distinct, adnate at base. Bulb tunicated, not alliaceous. Otherwise as in Allium. (Name from νόθος, false, and σκόρδιον, garlic.)
1. N. striàtum, Kunth. Scape 1° high or less; bulb small, often bulbiferous at base; leaves narrowly linear; flowers few, on slender pedicels, the segments narrowly oblong, 4–6´´ long; ovules 4–7 in each cell. (Allium striatum, Jacq.)—Prairies and open woods, Va. to Ind., Neb., and southward.