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Flowers race^ 



gonous, with prominent angles ; cells 2-seeded. 

 mose.—l<iamed from fxoaxoc, musk, a smell* yielded^ b^ "one 



m 1. M. "^racemosum Mill. (Starch G.) ; flowers crowded ovate 

 upper ones nearly sessile abortive, leaves linear flaccid keeled 

 longer than the scape. Hyacinthus Z, : E. B. t. 193L 



^ Grassy fields, &c. Sandy fields at Caversham, SufFolk, certainly 

 indigenous : Bromfield. 2/.. 5. — Flowers deep blue, smellino- like 

 starch. ^ 



8. A^i^LiuM Linn. Onion. Leek. Garlic. 



Perianth inferior, petaloid, of 6 ovate spreading pieces. Caps, 

 triquetrous. Flowers umbellate^ arising from a 2-leaved spatha, 

 — Named from the Celtic all, which signifies acrid, hurnin^. 

 (Theis.) 



Stem-haves not fistulose {plane or keeled). Alternate filaments 



S -pointed, 7nid die point hearing the anther, 



1. A. "^Ampeloprdsum ^^.(Jlowering gi^eat round-headed G.) ; 

 umbels globose without bulbs, leaves linear keeled acuminate, 

 stamens exserted, 3 alternate ones deeply 3-cleft, middle point 

 as long as the entire part of the filament, spatha 1 -leaved 

 pointed. JS,B. L 1657. 



Rare. On Holmes Island in the Severn ; Rat/ : 

 ancient cultivation ; Borrer, 

 land; Mr. W. Andrews. %, 



Stem 2— 



the remains of 



Great Arran Island, Galway Bay, Ire- 



8. — Bulb compound, of 2 — 4 divi- 



sions, ^tem 2 — 3 ft. high, with broad acuminate leaves, and large 

 heads of purplish-white flowers. Allied to A. Porrum, the leek, in 

 habit, but differing in its perennial and clustered young bulbs ; and 

 as Ray states his plant to have a simple bulb, Mr. P. B. Webb con- 

 cludes with justice that the one from Holmes Island is A. Porrum. 

 It is not known as a native of the western districts of France, and 

 A. Porrum itself is nowhere found truly wild. The specific name, from 

 a^TreAos, a vine, and ivpacrov, a leek, means leek of the vineyard. Porrum, 



says Theis, is from pori, to eat, in Celtic ; whence comes our word 

 porridge. 



2. A. Bahingtoni Borr. (hulhiferous great round-headed G.) ; 

 umbels globose with spherical (large) bulbs proliferous, stem 

 leafy below, leaves linear acutely keeled, stamens exserted 

 "incurved at the point when young," 3 alternate ones S-cleft, 

 middle point rather shorter than the entire part of the filament, 

 spatha 1— 2-leaved long-pointed. "" - _ - - 



A. Halleri Bah. Man. ed. 1. 



Rare. Grade and Ruan Minor, Cornwall, (but only in or near 

 orchards). Round Stone, Galway ; and South Isles of Arran ; Ire- 

 land. H.. 8. — This differs from the last almost solely by having 

 most of the flowers converted into large bulbs, a character, which al- 



Borr. in E. B. S. t. 2906. 



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