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which the centre one bears the anther. Spathe with a rather short 
entire beak. 
SPECIES I-ALLIUM AMPELOPRASUM. Linn. 
Puates MDXXX. MDXXXI. 
Bulb at the time of flowering consisting of 2 (rarely of 3 or 4) 
large slightly unequal white offsets (one on each side of the flowering 
stein) within the coats, and commonly producing a number of whitish 
hemispherical acuminated shortly-stalked bulbules about the size of peas 
atthe base. Leaves not fistulose, all sheathing the scape from its base 
to about its middle, very broadly linear, folded, glaucous, scabrous on the 
edges and midrib, the apex hooded and the sides pressed flat together 
when young. Scape cylindrical. Spathe 1-valved, ovate, subglobose, 
scarious, abruptly acuminated into a subherbaceous compressed beak 
about as long as the rest of the spathe. Flowers in a dense globular 
umbel, with or without head-bulbules. Perianth leaves connivent, 
gibbous, with a scabrous keel on the back of the 3 exterior. Stamens 
included, the 3 interior filaments 3-cuspidate, the antheriferous cusp 
about as long as the undivided part, and the lateral cusps considerably 
longer. Capsule ovate-subglobose, indistinctly trigonous. Seeds 2 in 
each cell. Head-bulbules absent, or greenish and subglobular, usually 
distorted and angularly compressed at the base by mutual pressure. 
Var. a, genuinum. 
Piare MDXXX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCLXXXIX. Fig. 1072. 
A. Ampeloprasum, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1657. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. 
p- 344 (ex parte). 
Head-bulbules none. Flowers very numerous, disposed in a compact 
globe, whitish, tinged with pale purplish-rose, and with a green midrib. 
Var. 2, bulbiferum. 
A. Ampeloprasum, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 344 (ex parte). 
Head-bulbules few or several, rarely as large as peas. Flowers very 
numerous, disposed in a compact globe, whitish, tinged with pale 
purplish-rose, and with a green midrib. 
Var. y, Babingtonit. 
Puare MDXXXT. 
A. Babingtonii, Borrer, in Engl. Bot. Suppl. No. 2906. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. 
p- 344, 
A. Halleri, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. i. p. 305 (non G. Don). 
