912 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES V—ALLIUM OLERACEUM. Lin. 
Pirates MDXXXV. MDXXXVI. 
Bulb at the time of flowering consisting of a single large white, 
offset at one side of the flowering stem, destitute of bulbules, or with 
one or two sessile ones at the base. Leaves subfistulose or nearly 
solid, all sheathing the stem from the base to about the middle, semi- 
cylindrical, and channelled above, or linear and nearly flat (at least 
towards the apex), dull green, glaucous, with several scabrous ribs. 
Scape cylindrical. Spathe 2-valved, conical, subscarious, gradually 
acuminated into a very long beak with 2 unequal herbaceous leaflike 
points, one of which belongs to each valve of the spathe, the longer one 
many times exceeding the length of the spathe. Flowers usually few, 
in a lax umbrella-shaped umbel (from the long pedicels drooping while 
in flower), intermingled with head-bulbules. Perianth leaves subcon- 
nivent, combined into a bellshaped cup, obtuse, pale livid olive, 
streaked with red or dark olive. Stamens included, about as long as 
the perianth; filaments all simple and subulate. Capsule acutely 
triquetrous, with 3 narrow compressed lobes. Seeds 2 in each cell. 
Head-bulbules elliptical-fusiform, straight, about the size of grains of 
wheat, rarely absent. 
Var. a, genuinum. 
Pirate MDXXXV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCLXXXVII. Fig. 1067. 
Billot, F). Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 1341. 
A. oleraceum, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 488; and Engl. Fl. Vol. II. p. 136. Boreau, 
Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. IL. p.630. Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. IIL 
p- 207. Reich. Ic. 1. c. p. 22. 
A. oleraceum, var. angustifolium, Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p, 831. 
Leaves narrowly linear, semicylindrical, with a narrow channel 
above, indistinctly fistulose. Head-bulbules numerous. 
Var. 2, complanatum. Fries. 
Pirate MDXXXVI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCLXXXII. Fig. 1057; excl. flor. 
mag. sinistr. 
A. complanatum, Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. II. p. 630. Gren. & Godr, 
Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. p. 207. 
A. carinatum, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1658. Reich. Ic. l.c. p. 20, ex parte (non Linn.). 
Leaves appearing in winter, broadly linear, very widely channelled 
at the base, flat towards the apex, nearly solid, with the upper and 
under surfaces parallel. Head-bulbules numerous. 
