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Nothoscordum (Greek, false garlic). Liliaceae. Herbs having an onion-like bulb and closely related to Allium.

Bulb tuicated, without the onion odor and taste: scape 0-12 in. high: Lvs. several, linear, basal, 6-12 in. long: fls. yellow or white, in an umbel; style obscurely jointed; ovary 3-loculed; ovules several in each loculed caps, oblong-ovate, somewhat lobed, obtuse.—About 10-20 species mostly found in Trop. S. Amer.; 1 in China and at least 1 in N. Amer. The species in this genus are variously placed under Allium and Ornithogalum by some authors.
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