HEXANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Allium. 157 



In corn-fields, and their borders. 



At Black Notley, Essex. Ray. In several parts of Westmoreland, 

 and near Bristol. Hiuls. At Fincham, Norfolk. Rev. R. Forty. 

 Near York. Sir Thomas Frankland, Bart. 



Perennial. July. 



Bulb ovate or roundish. Slem 2 or 3 feet high, slender, leafy in 

 the lower part. Leaves much narrower than the last, hollow, 

 semicylindrical, minutely rough all over ; ribbed at the back ; 

 channelled, or nearly flat, on the upper side. Bracfeas dilated 

 and concave at the base ; each suddenly contracted into a long, 

 slender, acute, nearly cylindrical point. Umbel, with its bulbs 

 im(\Jioicers, very much like the foregoing. The whole plant has 

 an un})leasant scent of garlick, and is a very troublesome weed, 

 difficult of extirpation, though not of common occurrence. 



5. A. vineale. Crow Garlick. 



Umbel spherical, bearing bulbs. Leaves cylindrical, smooth. 

 Three alternate stamens deeply three-cleft. 



A. vineale. Linn. Sp. PI. 428. mild. v. 2. 73. Fl. Br. 359. Engl. 

 Bat. V. 28. t. 11)74. Hook. Scot. 101. 



A. n. 1221. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 106. 



A. staminibus alterne trlfidis, foliis fistulosis, capite bulbifero 

 sphaerico, radice multiplici. Hall. Jll. \\ .n. 4. Opusc. 338. 



A. sylvestre. Rati Syn. 369. Ger. Em. \79.f. 



A. sylvestre primum. Fuths. Ilist. 737./. 



A. sylvestre tenuifolium. Lob. Ic. 1.06./. 



A. campestre juncifolium capitatum purpurascens majus, ct minu.«5. 

 Baufi. Pin. 74. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 153./. 1 1, bad ; 12, better. 



In dry pastures, corn-fields, and waste ground, among ruins, espe- 

 cially on a chalky or gravelly soil. 



Perennial. July. 



Bulb small, ovate, white. Stem slender, 2 feet high, kafy, round, 

 .striated. Leaves long and tapering, hollow, fading before the 

 Jlowers expand. Umbel small, with many crowded, ovate, acute, 

 greenish bulbs, generally viviparous before they fall, and more 

 numerous than ihc/lnu-fr-stalks, which are erect, purjjlish, swelled 

 at the top. 77. small, ])ale rose-coloured with green keels. Stam. 

 longer than the petals, 3 of them with ca])illarv, :q)read ng, late- 

 ral segments, very conspicuous, and at once distinguishing this 

 sj)ecies from the two last. G'rrmt;/ somewhat i)yramidal, obtuse, 

 with 3 lateral protuberances. Style very sliort. Caps, mostly 

 abortive. 



♦** S/a//.- radical, naked, 



6. A. i/rs'niifiN. Broiul-leavcd Garlick. Rainsons. 

 Stalk nakfd, si'inicylindrical. Leaves illiptic-iniKcnl.jti-, 



*>talkrr|. rinhcl kvLl-tnp|)i.d. ►Slanicns simpk-. 



