HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Allium. 421 
AI/LIUM.* * Bloss. six petals, expanding: Sheath dry and 
membranous, many-flowered; umbel crowded: Caps, 
superior, three-celled. 
(1) Stem-leaves fiat; umbel bearing capsules. 
A. ampelo'prasum. Umbel globular (without bulbs): stamens alter¬ 
nately three-pointed: petals rough on the bach. 
(E. Bot. 1657. E.)— Clus. i. 190. I—Bod. 691 —Lob. Obs. 79. l—Oer. Em. 
180. 2— Park. 872. S—J. B. ii. 558. 
{Bulbs occasionally becoming very numerous by lateral offsets. Stem up¬ 
right, cylindrical, leafy at the base. Leaves nearly an inch broad, flat, 
roughly toothed at the border. Germen egg-shaped. Summit blunt. 
E.) Filaments three pointed and single pointed alternately. Keel of the 
petals more or less serrated. Blossom pale purple. (Scent strong and 
disagreeable. In herbage this species resembles A. Forrum, the leek, 
but the nature of the perennial bulbs, as Smith observes, sufficiently 
distinguishes it. E.) 
Great Round-headed Garlic. (A very rare plant ; the only well 
authenticated British station being the Isle of Steep Holmes in the Severn 
sea, as remarked by the older Botanists, and where it was observed in 
abundance by the Editor in 1826. House Holm, Ullswater, and Kes¬ 
wick, have also been named, but Mr. Winch suspects these stations 
should refer to A. arenarium. E.) P. July.t 
(2) Stem-leaves fiat: umbel bearing bulbs. 
A. arena'rium. (Umbel compact, spherical; sheath pointless: sta¬ 
mens three-pointed: leaf-sheaths cylindrical: keel of the petals 
roughish. E.) 
Herrick, in his Hesperides, laments their departure in a more serious strain; 
“ Fair Daffodils , we weep to see 
You haste away so soon ; 
As yet the early rising sun 
Hath not attain’d his noon. 
We have short time to stay, as you ; 
We have as short a spring, 
As quick a growth to meet decay. 
As you, or any thing: 
We die. 
As your hours do j and dry 
Away, 
Like to the summer rain. 
Or as the pearls of morning-dew, 
Ne’er to be found again.” 
In Curtis’s British Entomology, pi. 98, may be seen a representation of Merodon clavipes, 
a fly whose larva feeds upon the roots of these plants. E.) 
* (Probably derived from uXbw, to shun or avoid; the smell being disagreeable to 
many. E.) 
This is eaten along with other pot-herbs. It communicates its flavour to the milk and 
butter of cows that feed on it. (The trivial name is supposed to have originated from its 
being prevalent in the vineyards of some countries; or, as some rather imagine, from otpinKog, 
a vine, and npo^os, leeky; alluding to the root and its appendages. E.) 
