5^ MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS ALLIUM. 
Bulbus ovatus, albus. CauUs tenuis, erectus, pedalis et ultra, infra 
medium foliosus. Folia subulata, semiteretia, caule breviora, Isevia. 
Spatha 2-valvis, elongata, foliacea (univalvis decidua in planta Ruthe- 
nica). Umbella confertiflora, globosa. Pedkelli breves. Perianthium 
parvum, cinereum : lacinics ellipticse, apice bipartitse, exteriores brevio- 
res cum lineolis dorsalibus viridibus. Stamina perianthium subsequan- 
tia. Filamenta subulata, basi dilatata. 
Obs. This plant is in habit hke All. spli(Erocephalum, 
but the stamens are all simple, and equal with the perianth, 
and the spaths two-horned. The flowers are very small. 
Sect. 4. — Floribus albidis stamina includentihus. 
64. All. circinatum, caule basi folioso, foliis liliformibus 
spiraliter tortis vaginisque pilosissimis, spatha diphylla lan- 
ceolata apice mucronata, umbella subtriflora, perianthii la- 
ciniis lanceolatis acutis. 
AUium circinatum, Sieb. Trav. i. p. 239. t. 6. Spreng. Sys. ii. p. 39. 
A. Cupanii, Raff, ex Spreng. Sys. ii. p. 40. 
Hab. in Sicilia. 
Bulbus oblongus, tunicis externis reticulato-fibrilosis fuscis obduc- 
tus. Caulis basi foliosus, teres, 3- v. 4.uncialis, pilosus. Folia filiformia, 
spiraliter torta, vaginisque pilosissima ; pilis longis. Spatha diphylla, 
lanceolata, apice mucronata, umbella breviora. Umbella subtriflora. 
Perianthium forsan album : lacinice lanceolatse, acutse. Stamina subulata, 
j)erianthio fere dimidio breviora. 
Obs. It appears to me that All. Cupanii is the same as 
All. circinatum. They agree in every particular, except 
there is no mention made of hairiness in All Cupanii. I 
have not seen the plant. 
65. All. moschatimi, caule basi folioso, foliis setaceo- 
subulatis scabriusculis, spatha bivalvi interdum univalvi 
brevi mucronata, umbella pauciflora laxa, perianthii laciniis 
ovato-lanceolatis acutis. 
