Pl.end.ph. 15. ASPHODELE^E. 120. Allium. 183 
£. biceps. Stem with 2 or 3 heads of bulbs. 
Ampeloprason give Porrura sylvestre, Ger. cm. 1 7 0 ? 
Ampeloprassum, Park. 871. 
d. Leaves radical ; scape naked ; umlells hearing capsules, 
7. Allium fissile. Partible garlick . 
Umlells capsule-bearing, globose; leaves awlshape; scape 
round ; bulbs soboliferous ; stamens as long as the peri- 
gonium. 
Ascaloni tides, Ger. em. 170. 
Cepa Ascalonica, Park. Parad. 513. 
Allium Ascalonicum, Lin. S. P. 429. 
Scallions. Shallots . 
Cultivated as a potherb. 
Bulb composed of many little bulbs, not enclosed in a 
common tunick ; scape 12 in. high ; spathe membrana- 
ceous; flowers small, deep purple; perigonium upright, 
ovate, lanceolate; anthers yellow; stigma blunt. 
IX. 121. CEPA. Onion. 
Perigonium 6-sepaled, spreading; stame?is 6, affixed to 
the bottom of the sepales, simple at bottom, dilated at top ; 
stigma acute ; capsule 3-sided ; cells deeply 2-parted ; axis 
threadshape, remaining after the opening of the valves; 
seeds 2 or 3, roundish ; corculum peripherical, more than 
half the length of the perisperm, curved or spiral ; spermo - 
dermis simple. — Root tunicated; bulbs simple or soboliferous; 
leaves flat, linear or round, radical or cauline ; flower um- 
belled, terminal, often bearing bulbilles instead of capsules ; 
spathe bivalve, dry, membranaceous, many-flowered, crowd- 
ed ; br acteoe 0. 
a. Leaves cylindrical , radical ; scape naked . 
1. Cepa esculenta. Esculent onion. 
Umlells capsule-bearing, globose ; scape fistulous, bellied 
below ; leaves round, shorter than the scape. 
Cepa alba, Ger. em. 169. 
Allium Cepa, Lin. S. P. 432. 
Allium esculentum, Salisb. Prod. 255. 
Silver-skinned onion. Deptford onion. 
Cultivated for kitchen use, in marsh land. 
Bulb oblong, ovate, scarcely acrid, sweetish, containing 
a saccharine principle analogous to manna; scape simple. 
