LILIACE®. PINE ( 
Section IV.—MOLIUM. Don. 
Destitute of an elongated creeping rhizome. Bulbs subsolitary or 
more rarely aggregated, globular or elongate. Stem leafless, from the 
leafstalk not investing it for any distance above the surface of the 
ground (or very rarely with the base of the petiole sheathing it); 
occasionally the petiole or the upper portion of it is free and the lamina 
broad, and in all cases not fistulose. Perianth leaves often spreading, 
more rarely connivent in a wide cup or funnelshaped bell. Filaments 
simple, subulate, not monadelphous, entire. Spathe 1- or 2-valved, 
without a foliaceous beak. 
SPECIES VI—ALLIUM TRIQUETRUM. Linz. 
Pirate MDXXXIX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. DIII. Fig. 1101. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 862. 
No rhizome; bulb at the time of flowering usually (?) solitary, 
consisting of a single large spherical offset at one side of the flowering 
stem, enclosed in a thick almost crustaceous opaque white coat, and 
producing at its base several globular bulbules about the size of cur- 
rants. Leaves sheathing the stem only beneath the ground, without 
any distinct petiole above the sheath, linear, parallel-sided, channelled, 
sharply keeled, at length recurved, pale green. Scape triquetrous, 
naked. Spathe 2-valved, lanceolate-fusiform, gradually acuminated 
towards the apex, wholly scarious. Flowers rather few, drooping in 
a lax somewhat unilateral umbrella-shaped umbel with long pedicels, 
destitute of head-bulbules. Perianth leaves connivent below, combined 
into a funnelshaped bell, recurved at the apex when in flower, strap- 
shaped-oblong, subacute, white with a green midrib. Stamens included, 
much shorter than the perianth ; filaments all simple, linear, adhering 
to the bases of the perianth segments. Capsule about as long as 
broad, bluntly trigonous. Seeds 2 in each cell. 
On hedgebanks and in meadows. Apparently confined to the island 
of Guernsey, where it is said to be not uncommon in damp shady situ- 
ations, in the parishes of Catel Forest and St. Martin. The only 
place where I observed it in the island was in a hedge at the north 
end of Vazon Bay, near the station for Centaurea aspera. Specimens 
were sent to the Botanical Society of London by the late Mr. J. 
Banker of Devonport, with the locality “ Isle of Dogs, May, 1852;” but 
if it really occurred there, it must have been casually introduced, as 
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