140 HEXANDRIA — MONOGYNIA. [Allium. 



Ft. July. %. — Stem 2 — 3 f. high, leafy below, rounded, glabrous. Heads 

 dense, with iimple Jiowers, rather small. Spatha often of 3 very short, 

 ovate, obtuse segments. 



3. A. carindtum, h. {Mountain Garlic); umbels bearing bulbs 

 lax, leaves linear keeled, stamens all simple, leaves of the spatha 

 very unequal. E. Bot. t. 1638. 



Sandy ground on the south-east coast of England, and mountainous 

 situations in the north. Banks of the Isla, Scotland. Near Dublin. FL 

 July. 1/. — 3 f. high. Stems rounded, glabrous, leafy below. Flowers 

 upon long wavy peduncles, pale brownish-white. Smith considers it to 

 differ from the following only in its more compressed leaves. 



** Stem-leaves rounded. 



4. A. olerdceum, L. (streaked Field- Garlic); umbellax bear- 

 ing bulbs, leaves grooved above, stamens all simple, leaves of 

 the spatha with long points. E. Bot. t. 488. 



Borders of fields in Essex, about Bristol, in Norfolk, Westmoreland, 

 and Yorkshire. St David's, Scotland. Fl. July. 1^. 



5. A. vinedle^ L. (Croio Garlic); umbel bearing numerous 

 bulbs, leaves fistulose, stamens deeply 3-cleft. E. Bot. t. 1974i. 



Corn-fields, waste places, &c., not unfrequent throughout England and 

 tlie south of Scotland ; and near Dublin, Ireland. Fl. June. If. — Stem 

 \\ to 2 feet high. Bulbs numerous. Spatha of 2 rather small, decid- 

 uous /e«ues. Flowers on longish peduncles, which are thickened up- 

 wards, few, erect, reddish, green on the keels, shorter than the stamens, 

 whose Jilameiits as well as the anthers are protruded. 



6. A. sphcErocephalum, L. [small round-headed Garlic); scape 

 leafy below, leaves subcylindrical channelled above smooth fistu- 

 lar, spatha 2-valved, umbel globular without bulbs, stamens 

 twice as long as the perianth the alternate ones 3-cleft, capsule 

 obtusely trigonous, bulb accompanied by stalked offsets. Bab. 

 in Engl. Bot. Suppl. ined. — Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 251. 



On the sands of St Aubin's Bay, Jersey. Babington §' Christy. Fl. 

 June, July. 1^. 



*** Leaves all radical. 



7. A. 7crsinum, L. (broad-leaved Garlic or Ramsotis); umbel 

 nearly plane, leaves ovato-lanceolate on footstalks, scape trian- 

 gular. E. Bot. t. 122. 



Moist woods and hedge-banks, frequent. Fl. June. If. — Flowers 

 white. Umbels without bulbs, level-topped. Spatha of 2, ovato-lance- 

 olate leaves. 



8. A. Scha:noprdsum, L. (Chive Garlic); leaves rounded sub- 

 ulato-filiform fistulose, scape rounded as long as the leaves. 

 E. Bot. t. 2441. 



Meadows and pastures, rare. Westmoreland, Berwickshire, and Ar- 

 gyleshire. \bove Kynance Cove, Cornwall, i'7. June. If. — 1 f. high. 

 Heads oi flowers compact, purplish. Stum, simple. »^a/^a of 2 short 

 ovate leaves. Umbel without bulbs. — Specific name from (rx't^oi, a rush, 

 and -jr^affov, a leek : i. e. rush-leaved onion. 



