212 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SPECIES v.- A LLIUM OLERACEUM. Linn. 



Plates MDXXXV. MDXXXVI. 

 Bulb at the time of flowering consisting of a single large white | 

 offset at one side of the flowering stem, destitute of bulbules, or with 

 one or two sessile ones at the base. Leaves sublistulose or nearly 

 solid, all sheathing the stem from the base to about the middle, semi- 

 cylindrical, and channelled above, or linear and nearly flat (at least 

 towards the apex), dull green, glaucous, with several scabrous ribs. 

 Scape cylindrical. Spathe 2-valved, conical, subscarious, gradually 

 acuminated mto a very long beak with 2 unequal herbaceous leaflike 

 points, one of which belongs to each valve of the spathe, the longer one 

 many times exceeding the length of the spathe. Flowers usually few, 

 in a lax umbrella-shaped umbel (from the long pedicels drooping while 

 in flower), intermingled with head-bulbules. Perianth leaves subcon- 

 iiivent, combined mto a bellshaped cup, obtuse, pale livid olive, 

 streaked with red or dark olive. Stamens included, about as long as 

 the perianth; filaments all simple and subulate. Capsule acutely 

 triquetrous, with 3 narrow compressed lobes. Seeds 2 in each cell. 

 Head-bulbules elliptical-fusiform, straight, about the size of grains of 

 wheat, rarely absent. 



Var. a, genuinum. 



Plate MDXXXV. 



EeicTi. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCLXXXVII. Fig. 10G7. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Essicc. No. 1341. 



A. oleracoum, iS'jb. Engl. Bot. cd. i. No. 488 ; and Engl. Fl. Vol. II. p. 136. Boreau, 



Fl. du Centre de la Fi-. ed. iii. Vol. II. p. G30. Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. UI. 



p. 207. Eeich. Ic. 1. c. p. 22. 

 A. oleraceum, var. angustifolium, Koch, Sjm. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 831. 



Leaves narrowly linear, semicylindrical, with a narrow channel 

 above, indistinctly fistulose. liead-bulbules numerous. 



Var. ^, complanatum. Fries, 

 Plate MDXXXVI. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, ot Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCLXXXII. Fig. 1057 ; cxcl. flor. 



mag. sLnistr. 

 A. complanatum, Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. II. p. 630. G)-cn. & Godr, 



Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. p. 207. 

 A. carinatum, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1658. Reich. Ic. 1. c. p. 20, ex parte (non Linn.'). 



Leaves appearing in winter, broadly linear, very widely channelled 

 at the base, flat towards the apex, nearly solid, with the upper and 

 under surfaces parallel. Head-bulbules numerous. 



