sometimes only slightly tinged ; in plants that do not flower 

 they grow much larger and are marked with an obscure-purple 

 band on the upper surface also. They have a pleasant acid 

 taste like our wood sorrel. Scapes longer than the leaves, ter- 

 minated with a simple or divided umbel of pale-purple flowers, 

 which are erect while expanded, but cernuous both before and 

 after expansion. According to Plukenet a capitulum of bulbs 

 is sometimes formed after the flowers drop, as in the Crow- 

 Garlick. In the flowers we examined, the pubescent style 

 was twice the length of the longest stamens, but we are well 

 convinced that the comparative length of the style and stamens 

 is too variable a character to be depended upon to distinguish 

 the species by. 



Introduced in 1772, by Dr. Samuel Martin. Flowers 

 most part of the summer. Communicated by Mr. Joseph 

 Knight of the Exotic Nursery, King's-road, in July last. 

 Hardy, but it is safer to give it the protection of a frame in 

 the winter season. 



