382 LILlAl'E.F.. [ORXITHOOAU-M. 



DISTRIB. Europe from Belgium southwards. Young shoots eaten, sold at 



Bath, and called French Asparagus. 



0. UMBKLLA'TUM, L. ; corymbs 6-1 0-flowered, pedicels slender sub- 

 erect, filaments broadly subulate. Star of Bethlehem. 

 Copses, meadows, &c., naturalized ; fl. May-June. Bulb 1 in., with many 



bulbils. Leaves &-8 in., J in. broad, concave, green with a white stripe. 



Scape tall ; rachis of corymb elongate after flowering ; bracts very long. 



Perianth 1-1^ in. diam. ; segments linear-oblong, white with a dorsal green 



midrib. Capsule obovoid. DISTRIB. Europe from Sweden southwards. 



0. NU'TANS, L.; racemes few-flowered drooping, filaments broadly 

 dilated upwards 3-fid. 



Copses, &c., Midland and E. counties from Yorkshire and Durham to Hereford, 

 naturalized ; tt. April-May. Bulb 2 in. Leaves 1-2 ft., - in. broad, con- 

 cave, glaucous with a white stripe. Scape as long ; bracts long, slender ; 

 pedicels curved, |-i in. Perianth 1-1 in. broad ; segments lanceolate, 

 white with a dorsal green midrib. Capsule pendulous, broadly ovoid, 

 green, fleshy. DISTRIB. Europe from Sweden southwards. 



11. AI/LIUM, L. 



Foetid, pungent herbs. Bulb coated. Leaves radical, flat or terete. 

 Flowers capitate or umbelled ; spathes 1-2, membranous. Pcrl<mth- 

 segments 6, free, spreading or eampanulate. Stamens 6, hypogynoiis or 

 on the base of the segments, filaments free or connate below ; anthers 

 oblong. Ovary 3-gonous, style filiform, simple or 3-cleft, stigmas simple ; 

 ovules few in each cell. Capsule membranous, top depressed, 3-lohed, 

 loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds 12 at the base of each cell, turgid or com- 

 pressed, testa black ; embryo curved, excentric, radicle next the hilum. 

 DISTRIB. N. temp, regions ; species 150. ETYM. The Latin name for 

 Garlic. 



SECTION 1. Por'rnm. Leaves sheathing the scape to the middle. 

 Perianth-segments erect. Three outer filaments broader, tips 3-fid ; lateral 

 cusps subulate, about as long as the antheriferous. 

 * Leaves fittular, 



1. A. vinea le, L. ; leaves flattened or grooved above, spathe solitary 

 short with a long beak, head globose usually bulbiferous. Crow Garlic. 

 Pastures and waste dry places, from Lanark and Aberdeen southwards, not 



frequent; S. and R of Ireland; fl. June. Bulb small. Leaves 8-24 in., 

 strict. Scape longer, cylindric. Flowers in., green or pink ; pedicels 

 slender, thick at the tip. Filaments exposed. Bulbils in., green or 

 purplish. DISTKIB. Europe, Canaries ; mtrod. in N. America. 

 VAR. 1, vinea'le proper ; heads with flowers and bulbils, perianth-segments 

 olive, midrib pink. Sandhills, rare. VAR. 2, capsuliferum, Syme ; bul- 

 bils 0, perianth-segments pink. Jersey. VAR. 3, cojnjMc'tum, Thuill. (sp.); 

 heads 1 or 2 together, all of bulbils. The common form. 



2. A. sphseroceph'alum, L. ; leaves terete or flattened or grooved 

 above, spathes 2 shortly beaked, head globose dense-flowered. 



St. Vincent's Rocks, Bristol ; St. Aubyn's Bay, Jersey ; fl. June-Aug. Habit 

 of A . vineale, but ribs of leaf rough when young, and heads dense, globose, 

 red-purple, without bulbils. DISTRIB. Europe from Belgium southwards. 



