LILIACEiE. 201 



SCILLA, Li mi. 



769. S. autumnalis, L. 



Native ; formerly on St. Vincent's Rocks, and perhaps also 

 on Clifton Down, Ray noticed it upon the Rocks, and 

 many other observers have recorded it from the same 

 place. Specimens from thence are to be seen in most of 

 the local herbaria of fhe last generation with dates 

 coming up to about 1860. We doubt if it has been 

 seen since the completion of the Clifton Suspension 

 Bridge and its approaches. Our information goes to 

 show that the plant grew plentifully near the Clifton 

 pier of the bridge, and was confined within a very small 

 compass. Swete, however (Fl. 78), gives also "the 

 sward on the top of the rocks." We will yet cherish 

 the hope that a few bulbs still remain in some little- 

 trodden morsel of turf; but as year after year passes 

 without a sign of their existence, the probability grows 

 rapidly fainter. 



ALLIUM, Linn. 



770. A. vineale, L. Crow-GarUc. 



Native; in pastures and on dry banks. 



The flowering variety ( (i. bidbiferum. Syme, E. B.J is 

 very rare. About twenty well-marked plants were found 

 in August, 1883, growing in loose sandy soil upon a 

 ledge of St. Vincent's Rocks. The form covipacUim is 

 rather common in both counties. VII. VIII. 



771. A. sphaerocephalum, L. 



Native ; very rare and local. 



G. In small quantity on some ledges of St. Vincent's 

 Rocks ; perhaps a dozen plants yearly. More plentiful 

 on Durdham Down, nearly a mile away from the first 

 station. Here as many as forty flower-heads have been 

 seen in one season. 



