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A^Uilim.'] XCIV. LILIACEiE. 451 



'%! though employed to distinguish the species of this genus, indicates 



rather a disease than a distinct organism ; all the other characters may 

 be the effect of such metamorphosis. Mr. W. Andrews finds itgrow- 



w i ing with J, Ampeloprasiim in Great Arran Island, and considers it 

 T only a variety. It is probably usually confounded on the Continent 



with the next. Bulb compound, of 2 divisions, with a iew external 

 yellow-brown stalked offsets from the crown of the root. 



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below, leaves linear flat, sheaths 2-edp;ed, stamens included or 

 as long as the perianth, 3 alternate ones 3-cleft, middle point 

 shorter than the lateral ones and the entire part of the filament, 

 leaves of the spatha with a very short point. E. B. S. t. 2905. 



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Mountainous woods and fields, in sandy soil, principally in the N. 

 of England and Scotland, but not common. Portmarnock sands, 

 Ireland. %.. 7. — Bulb simple, with numerous stalked purple 

 offsets. Stem 2 — 3 ft. high, leafy below, rounded, smooth, slender 

 &);[ ^^^ wavy, yet firm and solid. Spatha usually single, scariose, short 

 [I2{p^ and broad, with a short point. Bulbs of flowers not so large as a pea. 



Flowers mostly few, never so numerous as the bulbs, 6n stalks usually 

 much longer than the bulbs. This is not the Scorodoprasum of old 

 authors, that name being sometimes given to A. Ampeloprasum^ and 

 sometimes to a variety of the Leek or A. Porrumy nor even of some 

 modern botanists, whose plant is a large form of A, sativum : Borrer. 



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** Stem-leaves narrow, not fstidose (flat or keeled, or grooved above). 

 Filaments all simple, connected at the base. Spatha 2'pahed, one 

 1, 15 [ valve with a long point, 



4. S. olerdceum L. (streaked Field (?.) ; umbels lax bearino- 



rifffl I bulbs, stem le%fy below, leaves linear grooved above semiterete 



\ or flat and ribbed beneath, stamens simple as long as or shorter 



than the perianth. — a. leaves thick semiterete and 4-ribbed 



beneath thinner towards the summit. E. B. t.488. — jS. leaves 



rl|^ equally thick compressed and many-ribbed beneath. A. cari- 



natum Sm. (not Linn.?) : E. B. t. 1658. 



J,); I Borders of fields in Essex, about Bristol, in Norfolk, Westmore- 



lem , hind, and Yorkshire. — j8. Sandy ground on the south-east coast, and 

 .jgj P mountainous situations in the north of England. 11- 7. — Stems 



rounded, leafy below. Flowers upon long wavy peduncles, pale-- 

 brownish white. Smith considered his A, carinatum to differ only 

 from A. oleraceum by the more compressed leaves: most authors now 

 conjoin them. The true A, carinatum of Linnaeus is said to be cha- 

 racterized by its exserted stamens. 



*** Leaves Jistulose. Filaments all simple^ distinct. 



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(Chive G.) ; umbels many-flowered 





