LILIACE®. 207 
Shakespeare seems to fayour this statement in his conversation between Fluellen 
and Henry V. :— 
“Tf your majesties is remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a garden 
where Leeks did grow, wearing Leeks in their Monmouth caps ; which, your majesty 
knows, to this hour is an honourable padge of the service; and I do believe, your 
majesty takes no scorn to wear the Leek on Saint Tavy’s Day. 
“Kina Henry. I wear it for a memorable honour; 
For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.” 
There would, however, seem to be no reason for connecting the battle of Cressy 
(fought on August 26) with St. David’s Day; nor would the Welshmen have worn 
leeks in their Monmouth caps unless the Leek had previously been considered the 
national emblem. The Welsh tradition is, we believe, that in a great battle with the 
Saxons, 4.D. 519, the Welsh, who were victorious, had distinguished themselves by 
wearing Leeks in their caps, being commanded to do so by Dewi, afterwards canonised 
as St. David; on which account the Leek was ever after worn on the day dedicated 
to his memory. If this tradition were current in the days of the Black Prince, we 
may well believe that his Welsh followers drew auguries of success from being 
stationed “in a garden where leeks did grow,” and eagerly placed them in their caps, 
even though St. David’s day were past. 
SPECIES 1—ALLIUM SCORDOPRASUM. Linn. 
Prare MDXXXII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCXC. Figs. 1073 and 1074. 
A. arenarium, Linn, Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. I. p. 184 (mon Engl. Bot. Tab. 1358), 
Bulb at the time of flowering consisting of a single large dark 
purple offset at one side of the flowering stem (or rarely of 2, one on 
each side of the stem), and producing a number of ovate-ovoid long- 
stalked purple bulbules about the size of peppercorns, slightly acumi- 
nated at each end. Leaves not fistulose, all sheathing the scape from 
its base to about its middle, broadly linear, folded, glaucous, scabrous 
on the edges and midrib, the apex hooded when young. Scape cylin- 
drical. Spathe 2-valved ovate-ovoid, scarious, gradually acuminated 
into a conical subherbaceous beak shorter than the spathe. Flowers in 
a lax globose umbel, always intermixed with head-bulbules. Perianth 
leaves connivent, with a subscabrous keel on the outside of the 3 ex- 
terior ones. Stamens subincluded, the 3 interior filaments 3-cuspidate, 
with the antheriferous cusp about half as long as the undivided part, 
and the lateral cusps about as long as the latter. Capsule .... . ? 
Head-bulbules always present, dark purple, ovate-subelobular. 
In sandy and gravelly pastures and thickets. Local. It occurs in 
the counties of York, Lancaster, and thence north to Kirkcudbright 
and Berwick-upon-Tweed. It again occurs in the south of Fife from 
Culross to Donibristle, and has been reported from Forfar and 
Moray, but from the latter county as an introduced plant. In 
