Pl.end.ph . 15. ASPHODELEiE. 120. Allium. 181 
IX. 120. ALLIUM. Garlick . 
Perigonium 6-sepaled, spreading; stamens 6, affixed at 
the base of the sepales, those of the outer sepales flat, 
3-pointed, middle point antherbearing; the rest simple, 
threadlike; stigma acute; capsule 3-sided; cells deeply 
2-parted, axis threadshape, remaining after the opening of 
the valves ; seeds few, 2 or 3 ; corculum peripherical, more 
than half the length of the perisperm, curved or spiral ; 
spermodermis simple. — Root tunicated ; lull simple or sobo- 
liferous; leaves flat or round, radical or cauline; flowers 
umbelled, terminal ; umbells often bearing bulbs instead of 
capsules ; spat he bivalve, dry, membranaceous, many-flower- 
ed ; bracteoe none. 
a. Stem-leaves flat; umbells bearing capsules . 
1 . Allium Icetum. Pleasant garlick. 
Umbells capsule-bearing, globose; leaves thick, rather 
keeled ; bulb tunicated ; outer sepales rough on the outside. 
Forruin capitatum, Ger.em. 174. 
Allium Porrum, Lin. S. P. 423. 
Allium Isetum, Salisb. Prod. 234. 
Leek. 
Cultivated as a pot-herb ; biennial. 
Bulb oblong, fibrous at bottom, formed of the sheaths of 
the leaves; stem erect, 3 feet high; flowers campanulate. — 
Juice diuretic, dissolving calculi ; root and seed vermi- 
fuge. 
0. tonsile. Leaves and stem short, numerous. 
Porrum sectivum, aut tonsile, Ger. em. 174. 
Produced by cutting down the leaves for use. 
2. Allium porraceum Leek garlick . 
Umbells globose, capsule-bearing; leaves thick, linear; 
bulbs soboliferous. 
Allium Holmense sphaerico capita, Scorodoprasum dictum. Rail Sun, 
370,4. 
Scorodoprasium primum Clusii, Ger. em. 180. 
Scorodoprasium alteruin Lobelii, Park. 872. 
Allium Ampeloprasum, Lin. S. P. 423. 
Allium Porrumf/3, Lamark FI. Fr. 3,256, 
Porrum Ampeloprasum, Mill. Diet. n. 2. 
Mountain garlick. Garlick leek. 
Sunny hills; perennial; July. 
Bulb roundish, composed of 5 or 6 ovate, acute, whitish 
bulbilles inclosed in the whitish sheaths of the leaves; stem 
5 feet high, gradually attenuated ; edge of the leaves rough; 
stamens all tricuspidate, the 3 outer slightly toothed at th$ 
sides. 
