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from Deal sandhills. Var 3 in sandy places, but not veiy general; 

 I have collected it about Southend, Gravesend, and on Deal sandhills. 

 Yar. 7 is much the commonest form, and is found in pastures and 

 waste places and banks; generally distributed in England; rather rare 

 in Scotland, extending north to Lanark, Forfar, Fife, and Aberdeen. 

 Local ui Ireland, where it is confined to the south and east. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 



Bulb flowering when about the size of a black cuiTant, and rarely 

 above that of a large filbert, with numerous tough fibrous coats, the 

 mner ones white, the outer fuscous; the bulbules not placed above the 

 bulb. Stem 9 inches to 3 feet high. Leaves very similar to those of 

 A. sphajrocephalon, but rather more fistulous, and of a duller and more 

 glaucous green. Spathe (which does not split into 2 leaves) with a 

 very much longer beak or point (^ to 1^ inch long); umbel of flowers 

 much less globose, and the pedicels more enlarged below the flower, 

 than in A. sphajrocephalon. Perianth about ^- inch long, whitish, 

 strongly tinged with rose-colour when there are no head-bulbules or 

 when there are only 1 or 2 ; but very faintly tinged with rose and suf- 

 fused with greenish in var. /3, when there are numerous head-bulbules. 

 Cusps of the filaments equal in the numerous flowers I have ex- 

 amined, but no doubt this varies, as the plant is usually described 

 as having the anther-bearing cusp twice as long as the lateral ones. 

 Capsule similar to that of A. spha^rocephalon, but a little smaller, 

 and with the 3 angles a little more prominent, the pedicels becoming 

 quite erect m fruit as in that species. The head-bulbules, which are 

 usually abundant in var. 3, and completely replace the flowers in 

 var. 7, are from |^ to ^ inch long, in var. y often commencing their 

 growth before their fall, and sometimes even before the spathe is 

 thro^vn ofl"'; the ball formed by the head-bulbules varies from the size 

 of a black currant to that of a large cherry : these bulbules are usually 

 green, but often tinged with brownish-purple towards the apex. 



Crow Garlic. 

 French, Ail des vijnes. German, Weinhergs-Lauch. 



Section II.— CODONOPRASUM. Koch. 



Destitute of a creeping rhizome. Bulbs solitary,* or subsolitary. 

 Stem apparently leafy, from the leafsheaths surrounding it. Stamens 

 more or less monadelphous ; filaments all simple, subulate. Spathe 

 Avith a long foliaceous split beak. 



* By " solitaiy " I mean that the offset bulbs do not produce a stem or leaves until 

 they are detached from the parent bulb. 



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