Phend,pfi, 15. ASPHODELS^. 120. Allium. 181 



IX. 120. ALLIUM. Garlick. 



Perigonium 6-sepaled, spreading; stamens 6, affixed at 

 the base of the sepales, those of the outer sepales flat, 

 3-poiiited, middle point antherbearing ; the rest simple, 

 threadlike; stigma acute; capsule 3-sided; cells deeply 

 2-parted, axis threadshape, remaining after the opening of 

 the valves ; seeds few, 2 or 3 ; corculum peripherical, more 

 than half the length of the perisperm, curved or spiral ; 

 spermodermis simple. — Root tunicated ; lull simple or sobo- 

 liferous ; leaves flat or round, radical or cauline ; Jiowers 

 umbelled, terminal ; umhells often bearing bulbs instead of 

 capsules ; spathe bivalve, dry, membranaceous, many-flower- 

 ed ; bractecB none. 



a. Stem-leaves flat ; umhells hearing capsules. 



1 . Allium IcEtum. Pleasant garlick. 

 Umhells capsule-bearing, globose; leaves thick, rather 



keeled ; hulh tunicated ; outer sepales rough on the outside. 



Porruaa capitatura, Ger.eni. 174, 

 Allium Porriim, Lin. S. P. 423. 

 AUiuQi laetum, Salisb. Prod. 234. 

 Leek. 



Cultivated as a pot-herb ; biennial. 



Bulb oblong, fibrous at bottom, formed of the sheaths of 

 the leaves; stem erect, 3 feet high; flowers campanulate. — 

 Juice diuretic, dissolving calculi ; root and seed vermi- 

 fuge. 



i3. tonsile. Leaves and stem short, numerous, 



Porrum sectivum, aut tonsile, Ger.em. 174. 



Produced by cutting down the leaves for use. 



2. Allium porraceum. Leek garlick. 

 Umhells globose, capsule-bearing; leaves thick, linear; 



lulhs soboliferous. 



Allium Holmeuse sphaerico capite, Scorodoprasum dictum, Rail Syn. 

 370,4. 



Scorodoprasium primum Clusii, Ger. em. 180. 



Scorodoprasium alterum Lobelii, Park. 872. 



Allium Ampeloprasum, Lin. S. P. 423. 



Allium Porrum |S, Lamark Fl. Fr. 3,256. 



Porrum Ampeloprasum, MiU. Diet. n. 2. 



Mountain garlick. Garlick leek. 



Sunny hills ; perennial ; July. 



Bulh roundish, composed of 5 or 6 ovate, acute, whitish 

 bulbilles inclosed in the whitish sheaths of the leaves; stem 

 5 feet high, gradually attenuated ; edge of the leaves rough; 

 stamens all tricuspidate, the 3 outer slighitly toothed at the 

 sides. 



