LILIACEjE. 



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a foot loDg, their sheaths enclosing the 

 lower part of the stem. Flowers very 

 numerous, of a pale purple, on long pe- 

 dicels, forming large globular heads, 

 with a spatha of 1 or 2 bracts, often ta- 

 pering into a green point, but shorter 

 than the flowers. Perianth bell-shaped, 

 2 to 2 J 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. In 

 Britain, indicated as an introduced plant 

 in two or three spots in western Eng- 

 land, and said to be more abundant in 

 the Channel Islands, and in an island in 

 Galway Bay, Ireland, but even there pro- 

 bably not indigenous. Fl. summer. The 

 A. Babingtonii, Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2906, 

 is a variety with sessile bulbs in the umbel in lieu of most of the flowers, 

 and our garden LeeJc {A. Forrum) is now believed to be a cultivated 

 variety of the same species. 



Fig. 1034. 



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2. Sand Allium. Allium Scorodoprasum, Linn. (Eig. 1035.) 

 (Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2905.) 



This has the flat leaves, short spatha, 

 bell-shaped perianth, and flat, 3-cleft 

 inner stamens of the large A. ; but the 

 umbel is usually smaller, seldom (if ever 

 in this country) without bulbs, and the 

 stamens are not longer than the perianth. 

 It is also usually not so stout a plant, 

 the bulb smaller, with the young offsets 

 on slender stalks, and the umbel is oc- 

 casionally reduced to a head of bulbs 

 without any flowers. 



In sandy pastures, and waste places, 

 and occasionally in woods, scattered 

 over northern and central Europe, but 

 not an Arctic plant, and not common in 

 the south. In Britain, chiefly in northern 

 England, southern Scotland, and some 

 parts of Ireland. Fl. summer. It may 

 possibly prove to be a bulbiferous va- 

 riety of the Continental A. rotundum. 



Fig. 1035. 



