LILIACE. 211 
from Deal sandhills. Var 6 in sandy places, but not very general; 
I have collected it about Southend, Gravesend, and on Deal sandhills. 
Var. y is much the commonest form, and is found in pastures and 
waste places and banks; generally distributed in England; rather rare 
in Scotland, extending north to Lanark, Forfar, Fife, and Aberdeen. 
Local in Ireland, where it is confined to the south and east. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 
Bulb flowering when about the size of a black currant, and rarely 
above that of a large filbert, with numerous tough fibrous coats, the 
inner ones white, the outer fuscous; the bulbules not placed above the 
bulb. Stem 9 inches to 3 feet high. Leaves very similar to those of 
A. spherocephalon, but rather more fistulous, and of a duller and more 
glaucous green. Spathe (which does not split into 2 leaves) with a 
very much longer beak or point (4 to 1} inch long); umbel of flowers 
much less globose, and the pedicels more enlarged below the flower, 
than in A. spherocephalon. Perianth about 4 inch long, whitish, 
strongly tinged with rose-colour when there are no head-bulbules or 
when there are only 1 or 2; but very faintly tinged with rose and suf- 
fused with greenish in var. 6, when there are numerous head-bulbules. 
Cusps of the filaments equal in the numerous flowers I have ex- 
amined, but no doubt this varies, as the plant is usually described 
as having the anther-bearing cusp twice as long as the lateral ones. 
Capsule similar to that of A. sphzrocephalon, but a little smaller, 
and with the 3 angles a little more prominent, the pedicels becoming 
quite erect in fruit as in that species. The head-bulbules, which are 
usually abundant in var. 6, and completely replace the flowers in 
var. y, are from } to } inch long, in var. y often commencing their 
growth before their fall, and sometimes even before the spathe is 
thrown off; the ball formed by the head-bulbules varies from the size 
of a black currant to that of a large cherry: these bulbules are usually 
green, but often tinged with brownish-purple towards the apex. 
Crow Garlic. 
French, Ail des vignes. German, Weinbergs-Lauch. 
Section II.—CODONOPRASUM. Koch. 
Destitute of a creeping rhizome. Bulbs solitary,* or subsolitary. 
Stem apparently leafy, from the leafsheaths surrounding it. Stamens 
more or less monadelphous; filaments all simple, subulate. Spathe 
with a long foliaceous split beak. 
* By “solitary”? I mean that the offset bulbs do not produce a stem or leaves until 
they are detached from the parent bulb. 
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