118 FLOWERS OF THE WOODS AND COPSES 
smooth and bright green. They are reversed, and the stomata lie on 
the upper surface below. The bulbs are slender and acute. 
The flowers are white, borne in terminal clustered umbels on a 
naked triangular stem, with an egg-shaped, 2-valved spathe. The 
flowering stem is solitary. The 6 stamens in 2 sets of 3 are all simple, 
tum ursinum, L.) 
shorter than the segments, the anther-stalks free and slender. The peri- 
anth segments are 6 in number. The capsule is 3-lobed and 3-valved. 
Garlic is 1 ft. high. Flowers are found in April and May. The 
plant is perennial, and increased by offsets. 
The flowers contain honey at the base of the ovary in 3 notches 
between the carpels, and are therefore visited by insects. The style 
is about half its length when the flower expands, and without papillz, 
and the anthers are not perfect. 
The flowers are imperfectly proterandrous, i.e. the anthers mature 
first. The 3 inner anthers open first in succession, by which time the 
