C 1324 ] 



Allium cernuum. Bowed-umbelled 



Garlic. 



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Specific Cbaracler and Synonyms. 



ALLIUM cernuum ; (bulbus oblongus furfum cylindrice at. 

 tenuatu^ feepius plures bafi coherent es ;) foliis 

 linearibus, anguftis, acuminatis, canaliculatis, obtufe 

 cannatis; fcapo ex irregulariter angnlofo furfum 

 tereti-ancipiti, juxta infra fpatham curvato ; fpatha 

 bivalvi, pedicellis breviori, obtufa ; umbella nutanie, 

 multiflora, convexius fafligiante ; pedicellis corolla 

 duplo vel ultra longioribus; corolla cernua, hexa- 

 petalo-partita, trigono-campanulata, patula ; laciniis 

 concavo-ovatis, acutulis, externis fublatioribus bre- 

 vioribufque, interioribus fubc) mbiformi-concavis ; 

 filamemis hypogynis, fetiformibus, corolla fubduplo 

 longioribus, demum inter fe aEqualibus, bafi ftru- 

 mcfis ; antheris ereftis ; germine viridi, trigono- 

 turbinato, corolla 2 — 3plo breviore, triltriato, ob 

 fupremos angulos in lamellas bifidas acuminatas 

 extrorfum divergentes produ&os tricorni, cornubus 

 fubtus concavis porumque mellifluum proxime infra 

 bafin foventibus ; ftylo fetiformi e late deprefTa 

 germinis media fummitate pn-ftante, filamenta denuo 

 aequante; cufpide ftigmatofa fimplicifuma. G. 

 ALLIUM cernuum. Roth Nov. PL Sp. in Rameri Anhiv. &c. 

 No. 3. p. 40. Cat. Bot. Rife. 2. p. 33. tab. 2. Neue 

 Beitr. zur Bot an. v. 1. p. 190. Supp. Rem. on Wtlld. 

 Sp. PL in Annals of Botany, v. 2. p. 27. 



Scape about a foot and half high ; umbel, in the fpecimens 

 we faw, 30 — 40-flowered, loofe ; corolla rofe- white ; germen 

 marked with three pale yellow vertical lines ; the whole plant, 

 when bruifed, emits a very ftrong alliaceous fcent. Roth 

 mentions his having received the plant from Schreber, under 

 the name of Allium alatiim, but is ignorant of its Habitat. 

 Hardy and of eafy culture. We are obliged to Mr. Aiton 

 for the fpecimen from which the drawing was made. We have 

 fince feen others in the Nurfery of MefTrs. Lee and Kennedy, 

 at Hammerfmith. Flowers in July. According to Roth, 

 the capfule is roundifh trigonal, three-lobed, with the lobes 



bifid ; 



