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6.* A.carindtum (Keeled Garlic). — A very similar species with 

 linear, channelled leaves flat towards their tips, and rose-pink 

 flowers with stamens twice as long as the perianth. — Naturalised 

 in a few places. — Fl. August. Perennial. 



T. A. Schce}t6prasum (Chives). — A pretty plant with a few 

 straight, hollow leaves round in section ; and dense, globular, 

 many-flowered umbels of pink flowers, with 2 short spathes, no 

 bulbils, and included, undivided stamens. — Rocky pastures; very 

 rare. — Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



8. A. sihiricum (Greater 

 Chives), differing chiefly in its 

 larger size, sometimes 2 feet 

 high, and leaves curving out- 

 wards and roughly ribbed, occurs 

 on rocks, near the sea, in Corn- 

 wall. — Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



9. A. triquetrum (Triangular- 

 stalked Garlic). — About a foot 

 high, with a leafless, acutely tri- 

 angular scape; radical, flat, 

 linear, keeled leaves; flowers 

 drooping to one side, in a loose 

 umbel, with 2 short spathes and 

 no bulbils ; perianth-leaves white 

 with a green midrib ; stamens 

 undivided, included. — Hedges 

 and meadows, Cornwall and 

 Guernsey ; very rare. — Fl. April 

 — June. Perennial. 



10.* A. paradoxum, with a 

 scape leafy at its base, channelled, 

 involute leaves, and a bell-shaped 

 perianth, recorded from Linlith- 

 gow, is not indigenous. 



II. A. ursinum (Ramson, Broad-leaved Garlic). — The only 

 common species of the genus, with broad, flat, radical leaves 

 scarcely distinguishable from those of the Lily of the Valley ; a 

 triangular scape bearing a flat umbel of pretty white flowers with 

 2 ovate, acuminate spathes, no bulbils, and undivided, included 

 stamens. — Woods and thickets; common. When bruised the 

 whole plant emits an intolerable stench of Garlic. — Fl. May, June. 

 Perennial. 



Allium uRsixuM 

 {Broad-leaved Garlic, Ramson). 



8. MuscARi (Grape Hyacinth). — Bulbous plants with radical 



