NOTE. 



The fynonymy of Allium gracili (inodorum, N- 1129}, 

 which we had fince the adoption of that fpecific name altered in 

 the note fubjoined to the article in No. 1293, may be further 

 amended as follows : 



(*) Planta caldario hofpitata. G. 



ALLIUM gracile. DryanderinHori. Kew, 1.429. ed. 2. 2. 239. 



Willd. Sp. PL 2. 83. Bot. Repof. tab. 107. Nobis Jupa 



No. 1293, in not a ; (excl. Linn. Grot. Walt, et Gmel.) Exemp- 

 lar archetypum in Herb. Bank/. 

 A. Jiriatum. |3 ,• Lit. a Redout 2 in lextufoUi 50 ; (txcl. var, s 5 qn<c 



ftriatum prefentis Numeri.) 

 (*.'*) p\ an ta fub Dio vegeta. G. 

 ALLIUM fragrans. Ventenat* Malm. 26. tab. 26. Lil. a R:doute, 



2. tab. 68. Du Petit-Tbouars in nonv. bullet, p^ihn^t. 1. 198. 



Sept. 1808. n. 12. 

 A. inodorum. Nobis fupra No. 1129; (excl. Michrux;) it. No. u4 2 « 



vers.fol. in add. (exel. Linn. Walt, et Gmel.) hort. Kezv. cL 



2.2.237. f 



A. inodorum. SolanderiuHort. Rew. 1. 427^ Willd. Sp.Pl. 2. 70 r 



Exemplar archetypum in Herb. Bam/. ,- fid coritreclaiione et ve- 



inflate defeclum. 

 In the note to the article in No. 1293, we had already as- 

 certained to our conviction the fpecific identity of our hardy 

 inodorum with the fuppofed tender gracile. Since then we have 

 obtained (from the very {love which afforded the fpecimens from 

 which the fpecies was originally inftituted, as well as that from 

 which the figure in the Botanift's Repofitory was taken) one of 

 its bulbs, which we planted in the open ground, where it 

 flourifhed and feeded, lofing the drawn pale appearance it had 

 when cultivated in the hot-houfe, and acquiring that of the fpe- 

 cimen given in our figure. We have feen it in other collections 

 where this circumflance was known, particularly at Mr. Vere's, 

 whofe intelligent gardener, Mr. Anderson, was well aware 

 of the fpecific identity of the two plants ; with him it increafes \o 

 fail; as to require keeping within bounds in the open ground. 

 Said by M. Du Petit-Thouars to have been accidentally 

 carried into the Ifle of France, where it has become domefti- 

 cated, and increafed fo rapidly as to be a nuifance to the 

 ifland. The above naturalift has obferved, that each fe ed 

 contains 3 — 4 embryos, all of which growing into fcparaw 

 plants, tend of courfe to increafe the rapidity of its multipli- 

 cation. We take it for granted, that he is right as to the 

 identity of the fpecies, fince he gives it as the A. fragrans or 

 Ventenat, certainly our plant. He throws no light on the 

 queftion as to its aboriginal abode. G. 



