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* NECTAROSCÓRDUM siculum. 
Sicihan Honey-garlic. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
Nat. ord. LiLiacEz, $ SciLLEZ. 
NECTAROSCORDUM. Flores umbellati. Sepala et petala diversi- 
formia, semi-herbacea, valdé imbricata, persistentia, demüm cartilaginea et supra 
Aa rigidă eonniventia. Stamina 6, perigyna; filamentis liberis subulatis. 
'arium in apice pedicelli clavati semi-immersum, depressum, poris tribus melli- 
fluis in vertice dissepimentorum crassissimorum ; polyspermum, ovulis e fundo 
loculorum. Capsula sepalis petalisque persistentibus supertecta, ovata, loculicidò 
trivalvis, pori melliflui vestigio in dorso: Semina compressa, atra.——-Herba 
bulbosa, allium fortissime olens. Pedicelli florum cernui, capsularum 
rigidi erecti. : | 
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N. siculum. | 
Allium siculum. Ucria pl. ad Linn. op. addend. n. 7. Guss. prodr. fl. sic. 
1.398. Don in Sweet Fl. Gard. ser. 2. t. 349. 
Sepala à "petala Lasi valdé imbricata, diversiformia, nempe; sepala 
ovato-oblonga, obtusc , herbacea, leviter purpurascentia ; petala unguiculata, 
subcordato-ovata, mucronulata, medio purpurascentia, ungue calloso et 
sulcato. Stamina libera, basi nullo modo connata, omnia conformia. Ova- 
rium loculis petalis alternis, in toro crasso semi-immersis, poro depresso 
mellifluo in vertice dissepimentorum crassissimorum. Ovula in basi loculo- 
rum aggregata, quatuor per paria pone axin, quatuor pone ambitum serie 
simplici. Capsula receptaculo crassissimo inserta, sepalis petalisq. induratis 
obtecta, hemispherico-t , levis; dorso loculorum elevato, poro melli- 
fluo depresso. 
A bulbous plant found wild in shady woods on the moun- 
tains of Polizzi, Madonie, Ficuzza, S. Maria del Bosco, in 
Sicily, lowering in May and J une. 
It has been hitherto referred most unaccountably to the 
genus Allium, with which it agrees indeed in having an 
its flowers. 
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* From vexrap honey, and es garlic, imallusion to the honey pores in 
