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Crow Garlic (Alluim vineale). 



This plant is one of the GarHcs for which the 

 generic name given by Plautus was the first Latin 

 name. The second Latin name denotes pertaining 

 to vineyards. The plant would more appropriately 

 be called Vineyard Garlic on the Continent, where 

 vineyards are in some districts extensive. 



Crow Garlic is not a common plant in the British 

 Isles, but rather what we should term local, being 

 found here and there only in England and Wales, 

 Scotland, Ireland, and the Channel Islands. 



Waste dry places, fields and pastures, form the 

 habitat of the Crow Garlic. It is found on sandy 

 soil on dry grass heath. On limestone soil it is also 

 found on limestone grassland. 



There is no mistaking the habit of the narrow- 

 leaved forms of Garlic which have a grass or rush 

 habit. There is only a small bulb. The aerial stems 

 are scapes, and, as in similar cases, the leaves are 

 radical. They are hollow, flattened or grooved 

 above, round in section, with long, slender points. 

 They are about 2 ft. long. 



The flowers are in an umbel, on a long cylindrical 

 scape. There is a one-valved, solitary, short spathe, 

 with a long slender point. When the plant is in 

 flower the leaves wither. The flowers are few, rose- 

 coloured, with green keels, on long stalks. The 

 flower-stalks are slender, thickened above. With 

 the flowers are bulbils or there may be only bulbils. 



