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membranous beak much shorter than the rest of the spathe. Flowers 

 very numerous, in a dense globose or shortly ovoid umbel, never 

 intermingled with head-bulbules. Perianth leaves connivent, with a 

 subscabrous or smooth keel. Stamens exserted, nearly half as long 

 again as the perianth, the 3 interior filaments 3-cuspidate, with the 

 antheriferous cusp usually nearly as long as the undivided pai't, but 

 sometimes shorter, and the lateral cusps usually shorter than the 

 central one. Capsule ovate-subglobose, bluntly trigonous. Seeds 2 in 

 each cell. 



On sands in St. Aubin's Bay, Jersey. Once plentiful, but now be- 

 coming scarce from building being carried on. Foi'merly on ledges 

 of St. Vincent's Rocks, Gloucester; but Mr. T. B. Flower tells me it 

 has disappeared from quarrying operations. 



England (extinct). Channel Islands. Perennial. 

 Late Summer. 



Bulb flowering when about the size of a cherry-stone, and rarely 

 larger than a small nutmeg, enclosed in thin white coats enveloping 

 the unequally-stalked bulbules which project above the chief offset 

 like bunions on the base of the stem : sometimes the outermost coat of 

 the bulb is fuscous. Stem 9 inches to 3 feet high. Leaves 6 inches to 

 1 foot long, appearing at the close of autumn and decaying before the 

 fruit is ripe, from the thickness of a crowquill to that of a swanquill 

 at the base, more or less flattened or channelled above, at first with 

 the ribs rough, but afterwards these become nearly smooth. Spathe 

 genei'ally tinged with purple, especially towards the apex. Umbel 

 with very numerous close flowers; pedicels spreading in all direc- 

 tions, slender, ^ to 1 inch long; the upper ones frequently longer, so 

 that the umbel becomes ovoid; all erect and rather stiff in fruit. 

 Perianth bright dark purplish-red; the leaves about ^ inch lono-, 

 elliptical-oblong, obtuse, the three outer sometimes subapiculate. 

 Anthers dark purple. Capsule about the size of a lai-ge hemp-seed, 

 with three very blunt angles. Seeds shaped like one of the divisions 

 of an orange, black, rugose. 



I have both the Jersey and St. Vincent's Rock plants in cultivation, 

 from roots received from Mr. T. B. Flower; and judging from these, 

 I have come to the conclusion that there is no constancy in the leaf 

 being cliannelled above or not. La weak plants the leaf has scarcely 

 any channel, in stronger the channel is very apparent, and in very 

 luxuriant examples the channel flattens out, so that the upper side of 

 tlie leaf is nearly flat. I therefore, at present, see no reason to be- 

 lieve that A. Deseghsii is a distinct species or even subspecies. 



Bound-headed Garlic. 

 French, Ail a tCle roade. German, llundhi'qifirjer LaucJi. 

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