LILIACE2E. 



863 



In rocky pastures, throughout tem- 

 perate and northern Europe and Bus- 

 sian Asia, and in the mountain districts 

 of southern Europe. Rare in Britain, 

 being only recorded with certainty from 

 Northumberland and Cornwall, al- 

 though indicated in a few other locali- 

 ties in northern England and southern 

 Scotland. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 1037. 



5. Round-headed Allium. Allium sphseroeephalum, 

 Linn. (Eig, 1038.) 



(Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2813.) 



Stems 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves few 

 and short, very narrow, nearly cylin- 

 drical, and hollow, their sheathing bases 

 covering the lower half of the stem. 

 Umbel globular, rather dense, with nu- 

 merous purplish flowers, without bulbs. 

 Spatha of 2 bracts, shorter than the 

 flowers. Perianth about 2 lines long. 

 Stamens usually longer than the pe- 

 rianth, the 3 inner filaments broad and 

 3-cleft. 



In cultivated and waste places, in 

 central and southern Europe, extending 

 eastward to the Caucasus and north- 

 ward over a great part of G-ermany 

 and Belgium. In Britain, confined to 

 the neighbourhood of Bristol, and found 

 also in the Channel Islands. Fl. summer. Fig. 1038. 



