. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 13. LILY FAMILY. 5". 2. Muscari racemosum (L.) Mill. Starch Grape-Hyacinth. Fig. 1275. Hyacinthus racemosus L. Sp. PI. 318. 1753. Muscari racemosum Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8, no. 2. 1768. Similar to the preceding species. Leaves i"-2" wide, recurved or spreading, channeled above; raceme oblong or ovoid, many-flowered, dense, i'-2i' long; pedi
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 13. LILY FAMILY. 5". 2. Muscari racemosum (L.) Mill. Starch Grape-Hyacinth. Fig. 1275. Hyacinthus racemosus L. Sp. PI. 318. 1753. Muscari racemosum Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8, no. 2. 1768. Similar to the preceding species. Leaves i"-2" wide, recurved or spreading, channeled above; raceme oblong or ovoid, many-flowered, dense, i'-2i' long; pedicels shorter than the starchy- scented flowers or sometimes equalling them, slender, much longer than the bracts; perianth oblong, urn-shaped, constricted at the throat, 2"-3" long, with 6 deltoid recurved white teeth; capsule-valves suborbicular, retuse. Escaped1 from gardens, Connecticut and southern New York to Pennsylvania and Virginia. Native of . southern Europe. Grape-flower. Pearls-of-Spain. Starch-hyacinth. April-May. 14. ALETRIS L. Sp. PI. 319. 1753. Scapose perennial bitter fibrous-rooted herbs, with basal spreading lanceolate leaves, and small white or yellow bracted perfect flowers in a terminal spike-like raceme. Perianth oblong or campanulate, roughened without, 6-lobed, its lower part adnate to the ovary. Stamens 6, inserted on the perianth at the bases of the lobes, included; filaments short; anthers introrse. Ovary 3-celled; ovules numerous, anatropous; style subulate, or short, 3-cleft above; stigmas minutely 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid, enclosed by the persistent perianth, 3-celled, many-seeded, loculicidal. Seeds oblong, ribbed. Embryo small. Endosperm fleshy. [Greek, signifying to grind corn, apparently in allusion to the rough, mealy flowers.] About 8 species, natives of eastern North America and eastern Asia. Type species: A. farinosa L. A genus of uncertain affinity, which has been placed by authors in Haemodoraceae and in Amaryllidaceae. i. Aletri
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