184 121. Cepa. 15. ASPHODELEiE. Pl.end.pk 
@ . rubra. Bulbs roundish, purplish, very acrid ; scape 
simple. 
Common onion . 
Cultivated. 
y. Hispanica. Bulbs oblong, ovate, very sweet, large ; 
scape simple. 
Spanish onion. 
Cultivated from seed obtained from Spain and Portugal ; 
but grows less, and becomes more acrid every year, de- 
generating into the common onion. 
3“. ramosa . Scape branched. 
Tree onion. Bunch onion. 
Cultivated, but seldom. 
2. Cepa fistulosa . Pipey onion. 
Umbells capsule-bearing, globose ; leaves round, fistulous, 
ventricose; scape fistulous, as long as the leaves; outer 
sepales shorter than the inner. 
Cepa Hispanica oblonga, Ger. em. 160. 
Cepa longa, Parle. Par. 511. 
Allium fistulosum, Bin. S. P. 434. 
Long Spanish onions. Welsh onions » 
Cultivated as a ppt^herb. 
3. Cepa tenuifolia . Fine-leafed onion . 
Umbells capsule-bearing, crowded; leaves round, awl- 
shape, threadlike; scapes in tufts, as long as the leaves; 
sepales equal. 
Schcenoprasum, Ger.em. 176. 
Allium Schcenoprasum, Lin. S. P. 482. 
Allium tenuifolium, Salisb. Prod. 235. 
Gives. Chives. 
Fields and pastures; perennial; June; also cultivated 
for a pot-herb. 
Bulbs cylindrical, in tufts; leaves attenuated, 6 or 7 in. 
high, acute, glaucous, sheathing; scape slightly curved; 
umbells dense; spathe purplish, ovate, persisting; flowers 
crowded, whitish purple ; pistill very long. 
b. Leaves nmnd, cauline j umbells bulb-bearing . 
4. Cepa oleracea. Pot onion . 
Urrpbells bulb-bearing, lax; leaves half-round, furrowed; 
scape round. 
