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88. LILIACE.E. 
8. Al'lium Linn. Garlic. 
* Alternate stamens broader and Z-pmnted, the middle point 
alone hearing an anther. PoERUM Tourn. 
+ Stem-leaves flat or keeled, not hollow. 
*A. Anipeloprasum (L.) ; st. leafy below, 1. linWr, spath 
long, umhel globose compact, stam. exserted, anther-bearing 
point of 3-pointed filaments as long as the undivided part, bull) 
compound of 2 — 4 divisions.—^. B. 1657.— Bulb with large off- 
oets within its coats. St. 2 — 6 feet high. L. long, linear. 
Spath parting at the base, and falling off in one piece before 
the fl. open ; horn 1 — 2 in. long. Fl. pale purple, the keel of 
the outer subemarginate segments greenish and roughish. 
Germen rathf r globose ; transverse projections at about the 
middle ; lower spaces slightly excavated. Head-hidbs very 
rare, when present small, the size of peas. — Steep Holmes 
Islands in the Severn (remains of former cultivation). Cliffs 
in Guernsey. P. VIII. E. 
+1. A. Babingtonii (BoTT.) ; st. leafy below, 1. acutely keeled, 
spath long-pointed, umbel loose irregular with hemispherical 
bulbs, stam. exserted, a nther-hearing point of 3-pointed filaments 
rather shorter than the undivided part and with an incurved tip 
irhen young, bulb compound of few (2) divisions. — E. B. S. 
2906. — St. 4—6 feet high. L. long, linear, broad. Heads 
large, with many bulbs about as large as hazelmtts (a character 
quite constant in cultivation). Spath usually deciduous in two 
pieces or persistent ; horn 1 — 2 in. long. Fl. pale reddish 
purple, rather few, more conical than in the preceding, only 
.slightly opening; outer segments with a green keel, ovate- 
oblong. ^^^th callous points, edges and back rough with minute 
pellucid points < inner segments slightly emarginate and with- 
out i3oints. Lengthened stalks 1 — 2 in. long, bearing seconda ry 
heads, are usually present. Germen rather conical ; transver.se 
projection below the middle ; lower spaces rather deeply ex- 
cavated. — Roundstone sparingly, and South Isles of Aran plen- 
tifully, Co. Galway. Cornwali P. VIII. E. I. 
2. A. Scorodop'rasum (L. I) ; st. leafj' below, 1. flat, sheaths 
2-edged, spath short and broad ivith a very short point, umbel 
globose with many spherical small bulbs, stam. included or 
equalling the perianth, anther-bearing point of 3-pointed fila- 
ments shorter than the undivided part or the lateral points, 
bulb with many purple offsets. — E. B. S. 2905. A. arenariuiii 
Sm. — St. 2—3 feet high. Heads small. Fl. few, purple ; seg- 
ments all with a minute apiculus, outer with the edges and keel 
