218 The Flora of Wiltshire. 
table, the flavour being considered to be somewhat like that of 
Asparagus. 
O. nutans, (Linn.) Engl. Bot. t. 1997, has been observed in a 
plantation at Bromham, near Devizes, also in orchards at Limpley 
Stoke, North-west District, possibly in both cases only an outcast 
from gardens. 
Autium, (Linn.) Garttic. 
Linn. Cl. vi. Ord. i. 
Name. From the Celtic a//, which signifies acrid, burning. Dr. 
Withering thinks it is probably derived from o/eo, (Gr.) to shun 
or avoid; the smell being disagreeable to many. 
1. A. vimeale, (Linn.) vineyard Garlick, crow Garlic. Vinea is 
Latin for a vineyard, in which Jocality it is often found abroad. 
Engl. Bot. t. 1974. Reich Icones, t. 404. A. arenarium, Fries. 
Locality. Corn fields, waste ground, and dry places. P. FU. July. 
Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Distributed more or less throughout all the 
Districts. Stem 1 to 2 feet high. Bulls numerous. Spatha of 
one deciduous leaf. Flowers on longish peduncles, which are 
thickened upwards, few, erect, reddish, green on the keels, shorter 
than the stamens, whose filaments, as well as the anthers are protruded. 
B. A. compactum, (Thuil) umbel without flower-head bulbs, with a 
leaf-like point, is a form of this species and is the more common state 
in Wilts. 
2. A. wrsinum, (Linn.) Bear’s Garlic. Ramsons,! Hngl. Bot. t. 122. 
Locality. Copses and moist shady places. P. FV. May, June. 
Area, 1.2. 3.4.5. General in all the Districts. Flowers white. 
Umbels without bulbs, level-topped. Spatha of two ovate, lanceolate 
leaves. This is a handsome species, but it exhales, like most other 
species of its genus, when bruised, a very strong disagreeable odour. 
Enpymion, (Dumort) BLUuE-BELL. 
Linn. Cl. vi. Ord. i. 
Name. Endymion of Greek authors; the name of some purple 
flower. 
1¢¢Ramsons (allium ursinum fl. albo); tast like Garlick—they grow much 
in Cranbourn Chace.”—Aubrey, Nat. Hist. Wilts. 
**Eate leekes in Lide [March], and ramsins in May, 
And all the yeare after physitians may play.” 
