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twice its length. Seeds black, similar to those of the other British 
species. 
Garden Chives. 
French, Ail civette. German, Schnittlauch. 
The leaves and tender shoots of this plant alone are used in cooking for flavouring 
soups and stews, or for salads. In England Chives are little known, but in Scotland 
they are found in every cottage garden; and in France, where the science of cookery 
is more regarded than with us, they are a commonly used vegetable, being milder 
and more delicate than onions. 
Sun-Srecies I.—Allium Sibiricum. “Linn.” Friee. 
Prare MDXXXVIII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCXCVI. Fig. 1086. 
Billot, F). Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 1079. 
A. Schcenoprasum var. Sibiricum, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 346. Hook. & Arn. 
Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 453. 
A. arenarium, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1358 (excl. descript.). 
A. foliosum, Clairon, in D. C. Fl. Fr. Vol. II. p. 726. 
A. Schcenoprasum /3 alpinum, Gaud. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. p. 833 ; et Auct. 
Plur. 
Bulbs forming small tufts or subsolitary, the barren ones with a 
single leaf. Flowering stem with 1 to 3 leaves sheathing it up to 
about the middle. Tes es thick, often more or less recurv AS glaucous, 
with the ribs scabrous. Perianth leaves rather abruptly acuminate 
and often subapiculate, recurved at the tips. Every part of the plant 
twice as large as in subspecies i., and the umbel more decidedly 
conical in fruit. 
On rocks. Very local, and confined to the county of Cornwall, 
where it grows in plenty between Kynance Cove and Mullion, and 
also at Tintagel. 
England. Perennial. Late Summer. 
A larger and less cxspitose plant than A. eu-Schenoprasum, and in 
the Cornwall form with the leaves remarkably recurved and the scape 
often curved at the apex. Leaves sometimes as thick as a goosequill, 
more glaucous and with much more scabrous ribs. The perianth 
a little larger and deeper coloured than in the preceding subspecies, 
with the tips of its leaves more reflexed. The scape is hollow only 
in the upper part, and the plant is a little later in flowering. 
I am indebted to Mr. Charles Bailey for living roots collected by 
him in Cornwall, and I can confirm Mr. Borrer’s statement in 
“English Botany Suppl.,” No. 2934, that the plant comes up per- 
fectly true from seed. 
Greater Chives. 
