210 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES IV.—ALLIUM VINEALE. Lin. 
Pirate MDXXXIV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCXC. Fig. 1075, 
Billot, F). Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 3222. 
3ulb at the time of flowering consisting of a single large white 
offset on one side of the flowering stem, and producing a few half- 
ovate trigonous shortly stalked white bulbules about the size of cur- 
rants, which are acuminated at the base, shortly acuminate, beaked 
at the apex. Leaves fistulose, all sheathing the stem from the 
base to about the middle or a little above it, terete, more or less 
channelled or flattened above, dull green, glaucous, with numerous 
nearly smooth ribs. Scape cylindrical. Spathe 1-valved, scarious, 
subglobular, abruptly acuminated into a rather long conical subher- 
baceous beak usually exceeding the rest of the spathe. Flowers 
usually few, in a lax hemispherical umbel, almost always inter- 
mingled with, and often entirely replaced by head-bulbules.  Perianth 
leaves connivent, with a smooth keel. Stamens slightly exserted, 
scarcely one-fourth longer than the perianth; the 3 interior fila- 
ments 3-cuspidate, with “the antheriferous cusp nearly as long as the 
undivided part, and the lateral cusps shorter than the central one. 
Capsule ovate-subglobose, bluntly trigonous. Seeds 2 in each cell. 
Head-bulbules oblong-elliptical, acuminated, often incurved, about the 
size of barleycorns. 
Var. a, capsuliferum. , 
Flowers without head-bulbules. Perianth segments more or less 
stained with rose-colour. 
Var. 8, bulbiferum. 
Prats MDXXXIV. 
Flowers intermixed with head-bulbules. Perianth white tinged 
with olive; the midrib alone rose-colour. 
Var. y, compactum. 
A. compactum, Twill. Fl. Par. p. 167. 
Umbels without flowers, but with very numerous head-bulbules: 
frequently there are 2 or 3 heads formed solely of bulbules growing 
together at the apex of the stem. 
Var. in dry sand; very rare; I have it from St. Aubin’s 
Bay, Jersey, collected by the Rev. W. W. Newbould in 1842, and 
again by Mr. H. C. Watson in 1852; I have also a single specimen 
