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LILIACEJS. 



ALLIUM URSfNUM (Broad-leaved Garlic, Ramsons). 



8. ALLIUM (Garlic). 



1. A. ursinum (Broad-leaved Garlic, Eamsohs). 

 Leaves broad and flat ; flower-stalk triangular ; flower 

 in a flat umbel. Woods and thickets, common. The 

 leaves of this plant are scarcely to be distinguished from 

 those of the Lily of the Valley ; the flowers are white 

 and pretty, but the stench of the whole plant is intoler- 

 able. Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



* Seven other species of Garlic are described by 

 British botanists, but none of them are so common as 



