ALLIUM. 



A. montnnum. Crimfon Olympian Garlkk. Sm. Prodr. 

 Fl. Grsec. Sibth. 11.775- F'- Grsec. t 3<9. unpubl. 

 (A. montanum, radicc oblonga ; Taurn. lull. 384, accord- 

 wto Slbthorp.)— Stem bearing nearly cybnJrical leaves, 

 and an umbel of capfulcs. Sheath elongated, deflexed. 

 Stamens fimple. Flower-ftalks uniform.— Found ib the 

 eraffy paftures of the Bithynian Olympus, by Dr. Sibthorp. 

 The 3u/3 is ovate-oblong, red, with a ribbed angular coat, 

 fibrous at the fummit. Stem four or five inches Ingh, fmooth, 

 round, bearing about two (lender, fmooth, grafs-green kaws, 

 a little channelled on their upper lide, one of them rifing 

 above the umbel, which is rather lax. Petals obovate, pale 

 rofc-coloured with a crimfon mid-rib. Germen ovate-oblong, 



with fix deep furrows. ^ ,. , „ n , t-i 



A. ftaticiforme. Thrift-like Garlick. Sm. Prodr. H. 

 Grxc' Sibth. n. 776. Fl. Grsc. t. 320, unpubl.— Stem 

 bearing nearly cylindrical leaves, and an umbel of capfules. 

 Stamens fimple. Germen three-lobed. Umbel many- 

 flowered, fomewhat capitate — Gathered by Dr. Sibthorp, 

 ill the ide of Cimohs. The bulb is globular, about the fize 

 of a hazel nut, with feveral lateral offsets. Stem a fpan high, 

 reddilh. Lsa'jes about three, ftiorter than the ilem, re- 

 curved, with ftriated reddifn fneaths. Umbel denfe, of 

 about an inch and a half ir. diameter, rofe -coloured. Petals 

 obovate. Germen, as well as the capfule, turbinate, abrupt, 

 of three rounded lobes. 



A. pUofim. Hairy-leaved Crimfon Garlick. Sm. Prodr. 

 Fl. Grsc. Sibth. n. 777. Fl. Grxc. t. 321, unpubl — 

 Stem bearing nearly cylindiical leaves, and an umbel of 

 capfules. Stamens fimple. Leaves and their flieaths very 

 hairy.— Found by Dr. Sibthorp in the ifland of Cimolis, 

 and we believe in the Peloponnefus alfo. Bulb globular, 

 fmall, purplilh. Stem a fpan high. Leaves about fom", 

 fpreading, tapering, remarkably rough with fpreading hairs, 

 as are like wife their long, ftuated, ^m^Yii^ fieaths. Umbel 

 lax, hemifpherical, many -flowered, fmooth, the finwers and 

 their Jlalks of a pale purplifh crimfon. Petals elliptic- 

 obovate, obtufe. Germen of three hemifpherical lobes, not 

 turbinate. • 



A. junceum. Rufh-leaved Purple Garlick. Gm. Prodr. 

 Fl. Graec. Sibth. n. 778. Fl. Grace, t. 322, unpubl. — 

 Stem bearing thread-fhaped leaves, and an umbel of cap- 

 fules. Three alternate ftamens five-cleft. Umbel capitate. 



Difcovered in the ifland of Cyprus, by Dr. Sibthorp, 



who took it for A. Schoenoprafum, from which, however like 

 at firft fight, it differs cffentially. Our plant is more allied 

 to A. afealonicum, but ftill diftinft, and the Jlem is truly 

 leafy. Bulbs aggregate, ovate, with dark-brown, flriated, 

 elongated coats. Stem a fool high, flcnder, creft, leafy 

 about one-third of its height. Leaves two, nearly as tall as 

 the ftem, very flender, tubular, quite round, fmooth, a little 

 glaucous, fomewhat fpreading at the top. Umbel globular, 

 denfe, its Jheath of two broad, ovate, acute, concave, cloie 

 leaves, ftiorter than the flowers. Floiuer-Jlalks green, but 

 half the length of the petals, which are elliptic -oblong, acute, 

 purplifti, with a darker mid-rib. Stamens white ; three of 

 them fimple, awl-fliaped ; the intermediate ones flat, dilated 

 upwai-ds, terminating in two taper vertical teeth, on each 

 fide of a fimilar one bearing the anther. Germen elhptical, 

 with three flight furrows. 



Seft. 4. Leaves radical. Common Flo<wer-JlaH naned. 

 35. A. inodorum. Carolina Garlick. Ait. Hort. Kew. 

 ed. I. V. I. 427. ed. 2. n. 25. Willd. n. 33. Curt. Mag. 

 t. 1129. (A. fragrans ; Venten. Hort. Celf. t. 26. Redout. 

 Liliac. t. 68. Purfli n. 3.) — " Stalk naked, obfcurely tri- 

 angular. Leaves hnear, flat ; keeled at the back. Umbel 

 le»cl-toppcd, capfule-bearing. Stamens fimple." — On the 



mountains of Virginia and Carolina, flowering in Juile. 

 Perennial. Flowers white, with red veins. Purjh, who had 

 feen it living. It is marked in Hort. Keiu. as a hardy pe- 

 rennial, flowering in March and April, and introduced by 

 the late Duchefs Dowager of Portland, in 1776. We pre- 

 fume Dr. Solander to be the author of the above charafters, 

 given in Hort, Keiu, and that the plant of the Botanical Ma- 

 gazine and that of Redoute are the fame, though in the 

 forrncr work the petals are obovate, and remarkably elon- 

 gated at the bafe ; in the latter ovate, without any fuch 

 elongation. One or other is a great, and very material, 

 error, but not having feen the plant, we know not where 

 the fault lies. There are errors alfo in the detail of its Idf- 

 tory. Redouti t. 6 for 68 ; Venten. Malmaif. copied by 

 Purfh from the Magazine, for Venter.. Hort. Celf., which 

 proving that the vtork was not confulted by Purfh, takes 

 away our confidence in that author, as to fynonyms. The 

 name hwdorum is acknowledged to exprefs the want of the 

 Garlick foEtor in the herbage, while that of fragrans alludes 

 to the fweet fcent of the flowers. We retain the original 

 appellation. Mr. Ker, at the end of the hiftory of t. 1293, 

 in Curt. Mag. declares his conviftion that A. gracile, our 

 n. 55, is the fame plant. Wc cannot affert the contrary, 

 but we do not feel convinced, and there has been fuch a 

 divcrfity of opinion on the fubjedl, that till we can compare 

 living fpecimens,, we mufl leave the queftion in doubt. It 

 is remarkable that Willdenow fays A. Inodorum " is like 

 angulofum of Linnaeus, but twice as large, and differing in 

 the fpecific character," which chiefly amounts to the flalk 

 of the latter being lwo-<dgcd, and the leaves channelled. 

 He had both plants hving. But angulofum is moft excel- 

 lently reprefented in Curt. Mag. t. 1 149, and furely few of 

 the genus can bear lefs refemblance to t. 1129! It is 

 fcarcely more like Redoute's figures, named fragrans. We 

 proceed to notice the fpecies moft akin to inodorum ; for fo 

 at leaft it muft be prefumed to be. 



35,36. A. gracile. Jamaica Garlick. (See our n. 55.) 

 Dryandr. in Ait. Hort. Kew. v. i. 429. ed. 2. n. 38, 

 Willd. n. 52. Andr. Repof. t. 107. Ker in Curt. Mag. 

 at the end of p. 1293, var. i. (A. ftriatum ; Redout. Liliac. 

 t. 50. Curt. Mag. t. IC35 ? and t. 1524?) — "Stalk 

 naked, round, very long. Leaves linear, channelled. Sta- 

 mens awl-fliaped, connefted at the bafe." — Native of 

 Jamaica, from whence it was fent to Kew, by Hinton Eaft, 

 efq., and flowered in the ftove, in February. Aiton. Leaves 

 a foot long, refembling thofe of a Narciffus. Stali three 

 feet high, flender. Petals ereft, white, with claws, which 

 are united with the ftameiis below, into a green tube. Per- 

 haps this plant may form a diftinft genus. Dryaneter as above, 

 I'he writer of the prefent article happened to be with Mr. 

 Dryander, when the original fpecimens of this Allium were 

 brought from Kew, and on being afked for a name fug- 

 geiled the above. He then obtained a fpecimen, which is 

 now, along with others gathered at Kew in 1788, in his 

 herbarium, as well as one more, undoubtedly the fame 

 fpecies, procured from Mr. Vere's collection, in 1814, as a 

 rare plant, by the name of A. Jlriatum. He can therefore 

 fpeak to the whole herbhemg deflitute of the Garlick odour, 

 and to the want of fcent in \iie Jloiuers, by day at leaft, 

 though they may very probably be, as reported, fragrant at 

 night. He can alfo vouch for the fidelity of Mr. Andrews's 

 figure ; nor does he hefitate concerning t. 50 of Redoute ; 

 whatever fcruples a deference to Mr. Ker may fuggeft, as 

 to the two figures named Jlriatum in Curt. Mag. The fuf- 

 picJon of a generic difference between this plant and Allium, 

 arofe in Mr. Dryander's mind, from the combination of ihc 

 flamens, and was ftrengthcned by the want of the garlick 



flavour. 



