Muscari. | LXXXV. , LILIACER. 463 
In cultivated and waste places, heaths and pastures, in central aud 
southern Europe, extending eastwards to the Caucasus and northwards 
over agreat part of Germany. In Britain, it occurs in the eastern coun- 
ties of England ; formerly much cultivated in flower-gardens. Fl. spring. 
XIV. ALLIUM. ALLIUM. 
Bulbous herbs, with radical leaves, sometimes sheathing the stem to a 
considerable height. Flower-stem otherwise leafless, bearing a terminal 
umbel or head of flowers, surrounded by a spatha of 2 or 3 thin, whitish or 
searious bracts. Perianth of 6 segments, distinct from the base, either 
spreading or bell-shaped. Stamens inserted on their base, either all alike 
or the 3 inner ones broad and 3-cleft ; the middle lobe bearing the anther. 
Capsule with 1 or 2 black seeds in each cell. | 
An extensive genus, ranging over Europe, Africa, northern Asia, and 
North America. Most of the species possess the peculiar, well-known 
onion or garlic smell. 
Leaves flat or keeled. 
Umbels Jat or convex, of few very white flowers. Leaves quite 
radical. : 
Leaves more than an inch broad, on long stalks . . 7. A. ursinum, 
Leaves not $ inch broad, not stalked . : ; . 8. A. triquetrum. 
Umbels nearly globular, with numerous purple or pale flowers 
(or bulbs). Leaves sheathing the stem at their base. 
‘Leaves very narrow, and thick. Stamens all similarand 
entire . ; : ° . 2 5 . . &d A, oleraceum, 
Leaves flat or keeled. Inner stamens broad and 3-cleft. 
Stamens longer than the perianth. Umbels large, 
rarely with bulbs. 3 a A : 4 s 5 
Stamens not longer than the perianth. Umbels with 
bulbs amongst the flowers. : : : ° : 
es cylindrical or nearly so, very narrow. Umbels glo- 
ular. 
Stamens all similar and entire. 
Flowers on long pedicels, usuaily intermixed with bulhs. 
Spatha-bracts with long green points. : : j 
Flowers in compact heads, without bulbs. Spatha-bracts 
1, A, Ampeloprasum., 
2. A, Scorodoprasum. 
3. A. oleraceum. 
short ‘ ; : : é : : é » 4, A. Scheenoprasum. 
Three inner stamens flattened, and 3-cleft. Spatha-bracts 
~ short. 
Flowers intermixed with bulbs . A 4 
° : - 6, A. vineale. 
Flowers without bulbs, 5 ; 
pais . 5. A. spherocephalum. 
The genus comprises also the Garlic (A. sativum), the Onion (A. Cepa), 
the Shallot (A. ascalonicum), the Leek (A. Porrum), now believed to be 
a cultivated variety of A. Ampeloprasum, and a few species occasionally 
cultivated for ornament. — 
1, A. Ampeloprasum, Linn. (fig. 1046). Large Allium, Wild Leek. 
—Stems 2 to 3 feet high. Leaves rather broadly linear, flat, but usually 
folded lengthwise and keeled underneath, from a few inches to above a foot 
long, their sheaths enclosing the lower part of the stem. Flowers very 
numerous, of a pale purple, on long pedicels, forming large globular heads, 
with a spatha of 1 or 2 bracts, often tapering ‘into a green point, but 
shorter than the flowers. fPerianth bell-shaped, 2 to 23 lines long. 
Stamens protruding from the perianth, the 3 inner ones with flattened, 
3-cleft filaments. 
In cultivated and waste places, in southern Europe and western Asia 
