[Plate 25.] 
THE ACUMINATE ONION. 
(ALLIUM ACUMINATUM.) 
A Hardy Bulb, from California, belonging to the Order of Lilyworts. 
J^pcrific Character 
THE ACUMINATE ONION.— Stem leafy at the base. 
Leaves subulate, as long as the scape. Umbels lax ; the 
pedicels much longer than the spathe ; not bulbiferous. 
Sepals and petals acuminate, erect, recurved at the point, 
the latter much smaller than the former. Filaments 
ALLIUM A CUMINATVM—Chule basi folioso, foliis subu- 
latis scapo aequalibus, umbella laxa, pedicellis spatha 
multo longioribus haud bulbiferis, sepalis petalisque acumi- 
natis erectis apice recurvis his multo minoribus, filamentis 
brevioribus integris liberis, ovario capsulaque obovatis 
shorter, entire, free. Ovary and capsule obovate, without inappendiculatis. 
appendages. 
Americana. Vol. II. 184, t. 1.%. 
A few bulbs of this charming plant were sent from California to the Horticultur; 
Mr. Hartwesr, and flowered last spring in the Chiswick Garden, in a greenl 
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species are as ugly as plants well can be, and the handsome kinds are almost unknown in gardens. 
Nevertheless, in a genus consisting of nearly a couple of hundred species, many may be found which 
ought to take rank with Hyacinths and Jonquils j of these Moly and the Magical Onion are well-known 
examples, though now-a-days confined to curious collections ; and the rare species here figured is 
another, much handsomer than either, and probably the Queen of the family. Its gay flowers, 
almost transparent when colourless, and stained with the richest rose-colour near the points, can 
scarcely be regarded as inferior in beauty to the Guernsey Lily iisclf, and tl.ey are far less fugitive. 
The plant ctows about a foot hiirli. with narrow taper rushy leaves, about as long as the scape. 
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