Tas. 6182. 
ALLIUM narcissIFLorom. 
Native of Dauphiné and Piedmont. 
Nat. Ord. Liniacem.—Tribe ALLIEA. 
Genus Atuium, Linn.; (Kunth. Enum, iv. 879). 
Auuium nareissiflorum ; rhizomate brevi obliquo fibris setosis copiosis 
vestito, foliis 5—6 ascendentibus glabris glaucis anguste linearibus 
planis, scapo subcylindraceo folios superante, umbellis 2—10-floris ante 
anthesin cernuis, spatha monophylla ovata brevi, pedicellis flore brevi- 
oribus, perianthio campanulato purpureo pro genere magno, segmentis 
obovato-oblongis cuspidatis late imbricatis ad finem ascendentibus, 
genitalibus perianthio duplo brevioribus, filamentis conformibus lineari- 
bus, stylo apice breviter cuspidato, ovulis in loculo geminis, seminibus 
triquetis nigris. 
A. narcissiflorum, Vill. Delph., vol. i. p. 267, et vol. ii. p. 258, tab. 6; 
Kunth Enum., vol. iv. p. 484; Gren. et Godr. Flor. France, vol. iii. 
p- 211; Regel Mon. All., p. 181. 
A. grandiflorum, Chaix in Vill. Delph., vol. i. p. 820; Lam. Encye., vol. i, 
p- 68. 
A, pedemontanum, Willd. Sp. Plant., vol. ii. p. 77; Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ., tab. 
504, fig. 1104. 
A. nigrum, All. Pedem., p. 158, tab, 25, non Linn. 
A. roseum, Linn. Herb. 
This is by far the most showy in its flowers of all the 
Alliums. It is a native of the limestone mountains of the 
south-east of France and north-west of Italy, and belongs to 
the large group of species in which the annual bulbs arise 
from a creeping perennial root-stock, which is covered by a 
dense coat of matted fibres. Although an extremely well- 
marked plant, it has been much misunderstood by botanical 
authors. Linnzeus confused it with A//ium roseum, and Allioni 
with Allium nigrum, both of which belong to the section 
which has no root-stock, and as will be seen from the synonyms 
cited, it was named twice over in the “ Flora de Dauphiné” of 
Villars. The specimens from which the plate was drawn, 
were procured by Mr. G. Maw from Monte Campione, in the 
north-west of Italy. 
AuGusT Ist, 1875. 
