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* NECTAR0SC6rDUM siculum. 



Sicilian Honey-garlic. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Liliace^, § Scille^. 



NECTAROSCORDUM. Flores umbellati. Sepala et petala diversi- 

 formia, serai-herbacea, valde inibricata. persistentia, demilm cartilagiiiea et supra 

 capsulam rigid^ conniventia. Stamina 6, perigyna ; tilamentis liberis subulatis. 

 Ovarium in apice pedicelli clavati seiui-immersum, depressum, poris tribus melli- 

 fluis in vertice dissepimentorum crassissiinorum ; polyspermum, ovulis e fundo 

 loculorum. Capsula sepalis petalisque persistentibus supertecta, ovata, loculicido 



trivalvis, pori melliflui vestigio in dorso. Semina compressa, atra. Herba 



hulbosa, allium fortissime olens. Pedicelli fiorum cernui, capsularum 

 rigidi erecti. 



N. siculum. 



Allium siculum. Ucria pi. ad Linn. op. addend, n. 7. Guss. prodr. fl. sic. 



1. 398. Don in Sweet Fl. Gard. ser. 2. t. 349. 



Sepala et petala Ijasi valde imbricata, diversiformia, nempe ; sepala 

 ovato-oblonga, obtuse , herbacea, leviter purpurascentia ; petala umjuiculata, 

 subcordato-ovata, ^nucronulata, medio purpurascentia, ungue calloso et 

 stdcato. Stamina libera, basi nullo modo connata, omnia conformia. Ova- 

 rium loculis petalis alternis, in toro crasso semi-immersis, poro depresso 

 melli/luo in vertice dissepiment07-u?n crassissimorum. Ovula in basi loculo- 

 rum aggregata, quatuor per paria pone axin, quatuor pone amhiium serie 

 simplici. Capsula receptaculo crassissimo inserta, sepalis petalisq. induratis 

 obtecta, hemisphcerico-lrigona, Icevis ; dorso loculorum elevato, poro melli- 

 fluo dejjresso. 



A bulbous plant found wild in shady woods on the moun- 

 tains of Polizzi, Madonie, Ficuzza, S. Maria del Bosco, in 

 Sicily, flowering in May and June. 



It has been hitherto referred most unaccountably to the 

 genus Allium, with which it agrees indeed in having an 



* From j/fKTap honey, and nKoplov garlic, in allusion to the lioney pores in 

 its flowers. 



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