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usually branched flowerstalks bearing from 2 — 4 flowers ; the 
outer segments with a green keel, ovate-oblong with callous 
points, the edges and back rough with minute pellucid points ; 
inner segments slightly emarginate and without points. Common 
filament of the compound stam. with curved sides, truly oval. 
Head-bulbs often as large as hazel-nuts. — Hooker {Br. Fl. ed. 5. 
xxxviii.) refers this plant to A. carinalum which has all its stam. 
simple. — Roundstone, and S. Isles of Arran, Galway. Mr. 
W. MacCalla. P. VIII. E.? L 
3. A. Scorodoprasum (L.) ; st. leafy below, 1. flat, sheaths 
keeled, spath short and broad with a short point, umbel globose 
bearing numerous bulbs, stam. included or equalling the perianth, 
3 inner ones 3-pointed : anther-bearing point a of the length 
of the linear common filament and of the barren points. — E. B. 
1358. ? A. arenarium L. !, Sm. — Root with numerous small 
purple offsets. St. 2 — 3 feet high. L. with scabrous margins, 
not faded at the time of flowering. Heads small. Spath with 
a very short point. Fl. few, purple ; the segments all acute, 
the outer with the edges and keel rough. Common filament of 
the compound stam. with straight parallel sides. Head-bulbs 
very small, deep purple. — A. Scorodoprasum (Linn. Herb.) ap- 
pears to be a bad specimen of this plant, which is considered, as 
I believe correctly, to be that of Linnams by the Swedish and 
German botanists. A. arenarium (L. Herb.) is the same plant. 
A. Scorodoprasum (Sm. Herb.), so named by Davall, is my A. 
Halleri and is the Scorodoprasum of the old botanists. — Sandy 
woods and fields in the north. P. VI. VII. E. S. ? 
4. A. vineale (L.) ; st. leafy below, /. terete hollotv slightly 
channeled above, spath 1-valved short with a slender elongated 
point, umbel globose with numerous bulbs, stam. exserted, 3 in- 
ner ones 3-pointed : anther-bearing point equalling the common 
filament and half as long as the barren points. — E. B. 1974. R. 
Icon. t. 404. A. arenarium Fries. — St. 2 feet high. L. faded 
at the time of flowering. Heads with few pale rose-coloured 
fl. with green keels and long stalks. Head-bulbs small oval 
acute greenish. — [i. compactum; umbel without fl., head-bulbs 
terminating in a leaflike point. A. compactum " Thuil." — Waste 
ground and dry fields. P. VII. Crow Garlick. 
5. A. spharocephalum (L.) ; st. leafy below, 1. subcylindrical 
channeled above smooth hollow, spath 2-valved short, umbel 
globose without bulbs, stam. twice as long as the perianth, 3 in- 
ner ones 3-pointed : anther-bearing point as long as the common 
filament longer than the barren points, bulb accompanied by stalked 
offsets.— E. B. S. 2313.— St. 1—2 feet high. L. usually faded 
before the time of flowering. Heads with numerous rose-co- 
loured or purple fl. with the keels darker and rough. A. descen- 
dens (L.) scarcely differs. — Sands in Jersey. P. VII. O. 
