218 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
no one else has been able to find it, and it is too conspicuous a plant 
to be overlooked. 
Channel Islands. Perennial. Early Summer. 
Bulb flowering when about the size of a black currant, and rarely 
larger than a cherry, deeply buried, producing numerous bulbules at 
the base, some of which are sessile, some stalked. These bulbules, as 
far as I have observed, never produce leaves till the succeeding year, 
when they have become quite detached from the parent bulb; but Pro- 
fessor Babington, in “ English Botany,” describes the rootstock as 
* supporting a small cluster of white subglobose bulbs, about as large 
as hazel-nuts, witha few stalked offsets of similar shape ;” and M. Gre- 
nier, in the “ Flore de France,” says, “‘ Bulbes souvent fasciculdées.” 
Leaves solitary on the barren bulbs, 2 to 4 at the base of the flower- 
ing stems, about 1 foot long by } inch broad, often rolled up at the 
apex, unless protected from frost during the winter, at the beginning 
of which they appear above ground; before the fruit is ripe they 
are completely. decayed. Scape 9 to 18 inches high, slightly arching 
while in flower, but with the apex lying on the ground in fruit, 
with 3 sharp angles. Pedicels exceeding the perianth and equal to 
the scape, enlarged at the apex. Flowers 3 to 12, hanging to one 
side. Perianth segments 3 inch long, pure white, with a bright green 
midrib running nearly to the apex. Stamens about half as long as 
the perianth segments; anthers yellow. Capsule about the size of a 
small pea. Seeds rather large for the genus; the cotyledon remain- 
ing within the testa in germination, so that the first leaf comes up 
quite straight, not with a hook at the top as in all the preceding 
species. 
I cultivated this plant for many years in the north suburbs of 
London, and found the leaves were often injured by frost; but the 
bulbs were never prevented from flowering, and the seed ripened very 
freely. 
Triquetrous Garli, 
French, Ail trigone. 
SPECIES VIIIL—ALLIUM URSINUM. Linn. 
Prats MDXL. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. DVI. Fig. 1109 
Billot, F\. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 1340. 
Bulbs attached to a very short rhizome, aggregated in twos or 
threes or solitary, each consisting of a single narrowly oblong-fusiform 
compressed offset, at one side of the flowerstalk; the barren bulbs 
with a single leaf, the fertile with 2 or 3; coats thin, white, the 
outermost one split into fibres; bulbules none. Petioles free except 
at the very base (where that of the outer leaf sheaths that of the 
