Nothoscordum
(from nothos, spurious, and Scordon, Garlic; in reference to the near relationship which exists between this genus and Allium). Including Caloscordum. SYNS. Hesperocles, Oligosma, Pseudoscordum. ORD. Liliaceae. A genus comprising some half-a-score species of greenhouse or hardy bulbous plants, of which one is Chinese, and the rest are found in extra-tropical America and in the Andes region. Flowers in terminal, many-flowered umbels, with the pedicels not articulated; perianth marcescent, persistent; segments six, connate at base or in the middle, in many cases spreading or campanulate-connivent. Leaves radical, linear, flat. Bulbs tunicated. For culture, see Allium (in which, and in Milla, the species of this genus are, by some authorities, distributed).
N. aureum (golden). A synonym of Bloomeria aurea.
N. fragrans (fragrant).* fl. white, with a bar of very pale lilac on the outer side of each division, fragrant, in umbels of from six to twenty. Summer. l. linear-lanceolate. h. 1 1/4ft. to 2ft. North America, 1822. A vigorous and handsome hardy species. SYN. Allium fragrans. (B. R. 898.) N. inodorum (inodorous). fl. whitish, with brownish-purple streaks, scentless; umbel lax, six to twelve-flowered. April and May. l. all radical, narrow-lorate. Stem 1 1/2ft. high. Carolina, 1770. Hardy. (B. M. 1129, under name of Allium inodorum.) N. macrostemon (large-stamened). fl. six to twenty to an umbel; perianth pale lilac or whitish, 1/2in. to 3/4in. deep, the base a green cup; pedicels erect; anthers yellow; scape 1 1/2ft. to 2ft. long. Summer. l. developed with the flower, numerous, suberect, fleshy, narrow-linear, 9in. to 12in. long. Buenos Ayres, 1875. Half-hardy. SYN. Milla macrostemon.
N. neriniflorum (Nerine-flowered). This is the correct name of the plant described in this work as Caloscordum nerinaeflorum. N. striatellum (slightly-striped). fl. greenish-yellow, umbellate; petals ovate, acute, striated; peduncles erect. May. l. linear. Chili. Half-hardy. (B. M. 2419, under name of Ornithogalum gramineum.) N. striatum (striated-leaved). fl. white; segments six, lanceolate, spreading. May. l. 7in. to 8in. high, radical, upright, linear-lorate, striated. h. 8in. North-west America, &c. Hardy. (B. M. 1035 and 1524, under name of Allium striatum.)