1 82 WHITE TO GREEN 



PINK GARLIC 



Alliu7n recurvatujn. Lily Family 



Bulbs clustered on a short rootstock, narrowly ovoid, with a long 

 neck. Stems: scape slender. Leaves: linear, channelled, or nearly flat. 

 Flowers: umbel many-flowered, nodding, subtended by two short decid- 

 uous bracts; perianth segments ovate, acute ; stamens and style exserted. 



These clusters of tiny pink flowers, which grow on long 

 slender stalks that bend over abruptly at the top (hence the 

 name reciirvatum), are characteristically odorous, as may be 

 readily understood, since allium is the Latin for "garlic." 

 From ten to forty flowers form the umbel upon each stalk, 

 and both the awl-shaped stamens and the style protrude far 

 beyond the segments of the perianth. 



The leaves are long and extremely narrow, in fact grass- 

 like, being channelled or flat and terminating either in a blunt 

 or a fine point. 



