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Allium paniculatum. Pendulous- 

 flowered Garlic. 

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Generic Character. — Fid. No. 1420. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



ALLIUM paniculatum ; (capful are / filament a fimplicia ; folia 

 fiftulofi ;) bulbo globofo-conico ; foliis fubtrinis longe 

 vaginantibus {triads lamina lineari-atr.enuata, canaliculato- 

 depreffa ; caule tereti ere£lo ; ipatha bivalvi nervofa ovato- 

 caudata, valvarum altera umbellam aliquoties exfuperante; 

 umbella numerofa, peripherice pendulo-effufa pediccllis 

 capillaribus fJore pluries Iongioribus ; corolla cyathi- 

 campaniformi laciniis obovato-oblongis truncato-obtuiis, 

 exterioribus fubbrevioribus incurvulo-emarginatis, inte- 

 rioribus planioribus ; filamentis compreflb-fubulatis baft 

 inter fe et cum corolla breviter connatis, lacinias fubexce- 

 dentibus ; antheris brevibus incumbentibus ; germine 

 viridi turbinato oblongo, fexfulco-hexagono, vertice de- 

 • pre Ho ; ft) lo fetiformi germini aequali vel tandem fublon- 

 giore, apiculo ftigmatolo fubcapitellato ; capfulae loculis 

 2 — 3-fpermis ; feminibus oblongis obovato-attenuatis, 

 plano-convexiufculis. G. 



ALLIUM paniculatum. Linn.Sp. PL ed. 2. 1. 428. G<erin. Sem. 

 1. 56. t. 15. f. 1. Bieberjlein Ft* taur. caucaf. 1. 264. 

 I lor I. Kczv. 1. 425. ed. 2. 2. 236/ (excl. Redout <eo). Willd. 

 Sp. PL 2. 73 / (excl. Hoffm. Scop, et Hijl. Helv. Ualleri.) 



A. p aliens. Lit. a Redout e. tab. 272? 



A. foliis teretibus, vagina bicorni, umbella pendula fuave pur- 

 purea. Halltr Opufc. 386. n. 25. De All. 47. n. 22. in 

 utroque cum ic. 



We have purpofely omitted in the fynonymy mod of the 

 more recent European Floras, from a fufpicion that the pani- 

 culatum they have in view is oleraceum occurring with a capfu- 

 liferous umbel. The fpecies cited from Haller's treatifes 

 was conftituted and delineated from a Siberian plant only ; 

 although he fubfequently, but as we apprehend erroncoufly, 

 adduced it for a fynonym to a fpecies he found in Switzerland, 

 which he obferves is fometimes bulbiferous. From his clear 

 and copious account, we are certain that his original fpecies is 

 the fame with our own ; and Linn;F.us judges it to be alfo his 

 paniculatum. It is very probable that our prefent plant, may 



be 



