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specimen and some living roots, which leave no doubt as to the cor- 

 rectness of the nomenclature. I ajiplied to the finder, the Rev. 

 W. S. Hampton, rector of Stubton, and he writes : " I found one good- 

 sized patch of it in a lane in the parish of Doddington, next parish 

 to my own. The roots Avere very close together. I should think the 

 patch was not far from a yard square ; I did not see any other patches. 

 I should observe that the lane in question is at some distance from 

 houses, and very little frequented; but whereas a great deal of the 

 land round it is clay, the lane is very sandy, and the sides of the lane 

 have been in many places dug out for the sand, and fiUed up again 

 with soil from other places." 



ALLIUM PARADOXUM. Don. 



Found by Mr. Alexander Craig Christie in Binny Craig Woods, 

 twelve miles west of Edinburgh ; probably planted by Mrs. Stewart of 

 Binny House. The Rev. B. Hislop also found a plant by the banks 

 of the Water of Leith above Colinton. (See Trans, of Bot. Soc. 

 Edin. vol. viii. p. 458.) Arniston Woods, Edinburgh. (Trans. Bot. 

 Soc. Edin. vol. ix. p. 480.) 



ALLIUM ROSEUM. Lim. 



A. ambiguum, Slbth. & Smith. D. Don, in Engl. Bot. Suppl. No. 2803 (non. D.C.). 



This plant formerly occurred on the shore of the Medway, a little 

 above Rochester Bridge, where it was discovered by Mr. J. A. Hankey 

 in 1837. A specimen from this station was figured by Don as quoted 

 above. I found the plant in abundance in 1853, on the inner slope 

 of the embankment which surrounds a small field which projects into 

 the river Medway beneath Rochester Castle ; but on revisiting the 

 spot in 1866, the Allium had entirely disappeared. It is also said to 

 have occurred on Eye Castle HiU, SutFolk. 



ALLIUM NIGRUM. Linn. 



Living roots of this were sent to me from a hedgebank at Sprowston, 

 near Norwich, by the Rev. Kirby Trimmer, who states the plant has 

 been kno\vn for fifty years in that locality. It is the A. Ampeloprasum 

 of that gentleman's " Flora of Norfolk," page 144. 



ALLIUM MOLY. Lhm. 



Naturalised in plantations at Low Wood, near Belfast. Mr. T. A. 

 Steward, in Cyb. Hib. p. 21)7. 



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