LILIACE^ 153 



a 3-celled few-seeded capsule ; plants with a strong smell 

 of garlic (Onions). 



A. Filaments of the three inner stamens 3-toothed, the 

 central tooth bearing the anther; leaves flat: — A. Scoro- 

 doprasum, L.; perianth-segments purple with white margin, 

 umbel with purple stalked bulbils, leaves keeled ; hedges ; 

 BMe, Aargau, Geneva, Dauphiny, Vosges, Pyrenees. A. 

 rotundum, L. ; flowers purple, umbel without bulbils, 

 leaves narrowly linear ; among corn ; Schaffhausen, B41e, 

 Geneva. 



B. Filaments as in A.; leaves cylindrical, hollow : — 

 A. vineale, L. ; umbel small, flowers green or pink, some- 

 times entirely replaced by bulbils; cultivated land, fre- 

 quent. A. spJuzrocephalum, L. (including descendens, L.); 

 umbels large, spherical, without bulbils, flowers purple; 

 dry hills, frequent. 



C. Filaments not toothed (or teeth very short) ; leaves 

 flat: — A. ursinum, L., Ramsons; umbel nearly flat, with- 

 out bulbils, flowers white, scape nearly leafless, radical 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate ; thickets and hedges, common. 

 A. Victorialis, L. ; umbel globular, with sessile bulbils, 

 flowers greenish-white, scape leafy, leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 late ; high rocky slopes, frequent. 



D. Filaments as in C. ; leaves cylindrical : — A. Schceno- 

 prdsum, L., Chives ; umbel dense, globular, without bul- 

 bils ; flowers campanulate, light purple, stamens included, 

 anthers yellow; moist meadows, frequent. A. foliosum, 

 Clar. ; resembling the last, but a taller plant with lilac 

 anthers; moist alpine pastures. A. ochroleucum, Koch 

 (including ericetorum, Thor., suaveolens, Dub., and stric- 

 tum, Schrad.) ; umbel globular, with or without bulbils, 

 flowers yellowish-white or light pink, stamens longer than 



