216 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



twice its length. Seeds black, similar to those of tlie other British 



species. 



Garden Chives. 



Frencli, Ail civette. German, Schniillauch. 



The leaves and tender shoots of this plant alone are used in cooking for flavoin-ing 

 soups and stews, or for salads. In England Chives are little known, but in Scotland 

 they are found in every cottage garden ; and in France, where the science of cookery 

 is more regarded than with us, they are a commonly used vegetable, beiug milder 

 and more delicate tlian onions. 



Sdb-Sfecies II. — Allium Sibiricum. "Linn." Frlet. 



Plate MDXXXVin. 



Eeich. Ic. n. Germ, et Helv. Vol. X. Tab. CCCCXCVI. Fig. 1086. 



BUlut, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1079. 



A. Schoenoprasum var. Sibiricum, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 346. Hooh. & Am. 



Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 453. 

 A. arenarium, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1358 (excl. descript.). 

 A. foliosum, Clairon, in D. C. Fl. Fr. Vol. III. p. 726. 

 A. Schoenoprasum /3 alpinum, Gaud. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. p. 833 ; et Auct. 



Flur. 



Bulbs forming small tufts or subsolitary, the barren ones with a 

 single leaf. Flowering stem with 1 to 3 leaves sheathing it up to 

 about the middle. Leaves thick, often more or less recurved, glaucous, 

 ■with the ribs scabrous. Perianth leaves rather abruptly acuminate 

 and often subapiculate, recm-ved at the tips. Every part of the plant 

 twice as large as in subspecies i., and the umbel more decidedly 

 conical in fruit. 



On rocks. Ycvy local, and confined to the county of Cornwall, 

 where it grows in plenty between Kj^Tiance Cove and IMullion, and 

 also at Tintagel. 



England. Perennial. Late Summer. 



A lai'ger and less cfcspitose plant than A. eu-Schoenoprasum, and in 

 the Cornwall form with the leaves remarkably recurved and the scape 

 often curved at the apex. Leaves sometimes as thick as a goosequiil, 

 more glaucous and with much more scabrous ribs. The perianth 

 a little larger and deeper coloured than in the preceding subspecies, 

 witli the tips of its leaves more refiexed. The scape is hollow only 

 in the upper part, and the plant is a little later in flowering. 



I am indebted to Mr. Charles Bailey for living roots collected by 

 him in Cornwall, and I can confirm Mr. Borrer's statement in 

 " l!nglish Botany Suppl.," No. 2934, that the plant comes up per- 

 fectly true from seed. 



Greater Chives. 



