208 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Treland it is very local, and confined to the counties of Kerry and 
Cork. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Root flowering when about the size of a filbert, and rarely exceed- 
ing that of a nutmeg, the outermost coat brownish, the rest white, the 
lar: ge offset and the “small bulbules dark dull purple, the latter acumi- 
nated at each end. Stem not thicker than a swanquill, and often less, 
2 to 3 feet high or more. Leaves similar to those of A. Ampelo- 
prasum, but shorter and much narrower ( 3 to } inch wide), and less 
closely folded together when young, appearing at the close of autumn. 
Spathe, including the beak, about 1 inch long, the latter about 4 inch, 
and much less compressed than in A. Ampeloprasum. Flowers vari- 
able in number, the number being inversely as the number of head- 
bulbules. Perianth about 1 inch” long, less swollen at the base than 
that of A. Ampeloprasum, and of a much darker purplish-rose-colour. 
Anthers purple. Head-bulbules dark dull’ purple. The capsule I 
have not seen; for, though I have cultivated the plant for some years, 
the fruit has never ripened. 
My living specimens were obtained from Thirsk, sent by Mr. J. G. 
Baker, and from Mr. H. C. Watson. 
Linnzus appears, under the name of A. arenarium, to have included 
a small form of his A. Scordoprasum, and a large one of A. vineale. 
His description and herbarium specimens belong to the former plant; 
but, according to Fries, all the stations which he gives for his A. 
arenarium yield only A. vineale. 
Sand Leek. 
French, Ail vocambole. German, Schlangenlauch. 
SPECIES II—ALLIUM SPHHROCEPHALON. Linn. 
Prate MDXXXITI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCXCII. Fig. 1080. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 2542. 
A. Deseglisii, Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. II. p. 629 (?). 
Bulb at the time of flowering consisting of a single large white 
offset on one side of the flowering stem, and producing several half- 
ovate trigonous long-stalked white bulbules about the size of currants, 
which are abruptly acuminated at the base, and longly acuminate- 
beaked at the apex. Leaves fistulose, all sheathing the scape from 
the base to below the middle, terete, more or less channelled or 
flattened above, dark green, slightly glaucous, with numerous more 
or less scabrous ribs. Scape cylindrical. Spathe 2-valved, ovate- 
subglobular, scarious, abruptly acuminated into a very short conical 
