214 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Lenormand from Professor Boreau, as his A. oleraceum and A. com- 
planatum; the former has narrower and more fistulose leaves, the 
latter broader and flatter leaves than any of the British examples. 
From the same source I received a plant under the name of A. 
paniculatum, from Angers. This I have no doubt is merely a wholly 
capsuliferous form of A. oleraceum. It is certainly not the A. pani- 
culatum of most authors. 
Reichenbach, in his “ Icones,” appears to have confounded A. olera- 
ceum var. complanatum with the very distinct A. carinatum, Linn. 
His description and the main figure of his plate are unquestionably the 
former; but the detached flower with greatly exserted stamens has 
evidently been drawn from the true A. carinatum, which he figures 
under the name of violaceum on the same plate. 
Field Garlic. 
French, Ail des lieux cultivés. German, Gemiise-Lauch. 
The Garlic used in cooking is not the native species, but one indigenous to the 
south of France and Sicily, and is known as Alliwm sativum. It was introduced in 
1548, but appears to have been well known to the ancients, and formed a favourite 
dish among the Greeks and Romans. The tender leaves of the native species are 
often boiled in soups or fried with other herbs. Dr. Withering tells us that the 
smell of Garlic is so much disliked by moles, that to get rid of them it is sufficient 
to introduce a few heads of the plant into their subterranean holes. 
Section III].—SCHGENOPRASUM. Awcé. 
Destitute of an extensive creeping rhizome. Bulbs aggregated, rarely 
solitary, elongate. Stem apparently leafy, from the leafsheaths sur- 
rounding it, but frequently with only a single leaf, or sometimes 
leafless. Perianth segments connivent at the base, often recurved 
at the apex. Stamens more or less monadelphous, rarely free; fila- 
ments simple, subulate or the 3 interior dilated at the base, or rarely 
3-cuspidate. Spathe with a very short non-foliaceous beak, 2-valved. 
SPECIES VI-ALLIUM SCHG@NOPRASUM. “Linn.” Aut. 
Puares MDXXXVII. MDXXXVIII. 
Bulbs attached to a very short rhizome, aggregated by twos or 
threes, lanceolate-conical. Leaves terete, widely fistulose, dull green 
or glaucous, usually one or two of them sheathing the base of the 
stem; the barren bulbs with 1 to 4 leaves. Scape cylindrical. Spathe 
2-valved, globose, scarious, coloured, abruptly acuminated into a very 
short conical apiculus. Flowers numerous, erect, in a dense hemi- 
spherical-turbinate umbel with short pedicels, destitute of head- 
