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ALLIUM, L. 



702. A. vineale, L. Crow Garlic. 



c. compactum. 



Native ; on diy banks, earth-capped Avails, and in pastures and 

 other turfy places. Rather, though locally, common. 

 c. I. In plenty by the Crafthole Road, near St. Germans Beacon. 

 Tideford. 

 II. About Torpoint, where I have rarely seen plants with a flower 

 bud or two among the bulbules. Sparingly at Penhale, near 

 St. Johns. Near Empacombe ; one plant Avith two flower buds, 

 1875. Kear Saltash. Cargeen. 

 D. III. [About twenty plants on a hedge-bank between Pennycomequick 

 and Stoke Damerel, 1873 ; there until about 1879, when it was 

 destroyed by builduig.] Edge of a low cliff between Millbay 

 Docks and Whiter Villa, Stonehouse, 1876. Near Pounds, and 

 in Bladderley Lane, near Prospect. Above the western shore 

 of Weston Mills Lake, and by the Plymouth and Saltash Road. 

 Near Torr Grove. Blaxton. Maristow. Hedge-bank below 

 Buckland Abbey. Beer Ferrers. 

 IV. Abundant m the lawn of Tothill House. Between Lipson Terrace 

 and Lipson Vale. In plenty on one of the embankments by 

 the Laira. ■Higher Compton. On the limestone about the 

 Plym estuary. Radford. Wall between Billacombe and Plymp- 

 ton. 

 V. Border of a meadow by the tidal Yealm, below South Farm. 

 Near Bridgend. Newton Ferrers. Wall -top in Yeahnpton 

 village. 

 VI. Cliff above Meadowfoot Cove, jMothecombe. On the lawn of a 



house at Penquit, between Ermington and Ivybridge. 

 I have arranged all our plants under var. compactum^ though occasion- 

 ally a plant may be seen here and there with one or two ill-developed 

 flowers among the bulbules. 



The species is scarcely more than submaritime, and is quite absent from 

 the cold granitic and moorland tracts. By the coast near St. Germans 

 Beacon it ascends to 450 feet. 



703. A. oleraceum, L. Field Garlic. 



var. a. genuinum. 



Native ; on bushy and grassy banks, earth-capped walls, and on 



the borders of fields. Rare, and extremely local. August, 



September. 

 D. IV. In many spots on limestone in the tract of country lying between 



Pomphlet, Plymstock, Elburton, and Plympton, as well as on a 



