502 LiLiACEiE. [Allium. 



III. Allium, Linn. Garlick. 



" Perianth inferior, petaloid, of 6 ovate spreading pieces. Cap- 

 sule triquetrous. — Flowers umbellate, arising from a ^-leaved 

 spatha." — Br. Fl. 



1. A. vineale, L. Crmv Garliek. " Umbel globose bearing 

 numerous bulbs, stem leafy below, leaves fistulose cylindrical 

 sligbtly cbannelled above, spatha of one leaf short with long slen- 

 der points, stamens exserted, 3 alternate ones deeply 3-cleft, 

 middle points half as long as the lateral ones and as long as the 

 entire part of the filaments."—^?'. Fl. p. 440. E. B. t. 1974. 



In meadows, pastures, waste grassy places, borders of fields, and on sandy 

 banks and cliffs : not common, and seldom if ever flowering in this island. Fl. 

 June, July. If. 



jE. Med. — On Steephill and other parts of the Undercliff, occasionally. Fre- 

 quent on the E. bank of the Medina, below Newport, near Fairies house, George 

 Kirkpatrick, Esq. .'.'.' Culver cliffs. Rev. G. E. Smith. 



? 2. A. oleraceum, L. Streaked Field Garlick. " Umbels lax 

 bearing bulbs, stem leafj^ below, leaves linear grooved above semi- 

 terete or flat and ribbed beneath, stamens simple as long as or 

 shorter than the perianth." — Br. Fl. p. 439. E. B. t. 488. Fl. 

 Dan. ix. t. 1456. 



E. Med. — On the debris of the green sandstone in Sandown bay, sparingly, 

 where the Rev. G. E. Smith, believed he had remarked it some years ago. Ex- 

 ceedingly abundant along the summit of the cliff above the same station, for per- 

 haps a hundred yards or more, but never, I believe, flowering, though producing 

 beads of bulbs at the extremity of the scape, as do the plants beneath (very doubt- 

 ful if anything else than A. vineale). 



3. A. ursinum, L. Broad-leaved Garlick. Ramsons. Vect. 

 Giiosy Onion. " Umbel nearly plane, leaves ovato-lanceolate on 

 footstalks, scape triangular." — Br. Fl. p. 440. E. B. t. 122. 



In damp groves, copses, thickets, moist hollows, meadows, pastures, and on 

 shady hedgebanks ; far too abundantly in many places, i^/. April — June. If. 



E. Med. — In enormous quantity over nearly the whole of Greatwood copse, 

 near Shanklin, and extremely abundant in all other woods betwixt Shanklin and 

 Bonchurch, 1849. Plentiful in Centurion's copse, near Brading. Grounds at 

 Noriis castle, and in Barton copse, abundantly. Hatchet close and Cowpit-cliff 

 copse. Abundantly in the great enclosed wood at Appuldurcombe park. 



W. Med.- — Copses between Tdlecombe and Shorwell, abundant. About Shor- 

 well, as at North Court, in the dell or hollow in which the Mausoleum stands, in 

 patches of copse about Cheverton farm, &c., &c., abundantly, 1846. Most pro- 

 fusely in Lorden, Barkhams and Bakerwood copses, between Carisbrooke and Shor- 

 well, perfectly concealing the ground, to the utter exclusion of every other plant, 

 except the no less gregarious and usurping Mercurialis perennis. Very rank and 

 abundant about Gatcomb under the trees in the wilderness or rookery, 1846. 

 Common in Swainston woods, about Calbourne, and in fact in every patch of 

 copse on the southern slope and foot of the central chalk range, in Westridge, 

 Sluccomb, Demcomb copses, &c., much too plentiful. Abundant in woods at 

 Rowledge, 1844. 



Bulb linear-oblong, white, emitting a bundle of stout cylindrical fibres ; formed 

 of the enlarged base of the inner leaf, and enveloped by the sheathing expansion 

 of the outer one at the extremity of its footstalk, guarded besides by the bristle- 



