424 HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Fritillaria, 
panding. Stamens awl-shaped, equal. Germen top-shaped, three-lob- 
ed, smooth. E.) 
Ramsons. (Broad-leaved Garlic. Irish: Creaugh cailleah. Welsh : 
Craf y geifr. Gaelic : Crearnh. Woods, hedges, and dry meadows. 
On Ramps Holm, an island of Derwent-water, so called from being 
covered with this plant. Mr. Winch. Arniston woods. Greville. Angle¬ 
sey. Welsh Bot. Spernall and Oversley woods, and on moist ditch banks 
at Hay House, Castle Bromwich, in great plenty. Burton. East base of 
Castle Hill, Folkstone. Mr. Gerard E. Smith. By the road side between 
Axbridge and Cross, Somersetshire. Several pastures near Penn’s mill 
atErdington, Warwickshire, abound so much with this plant as to be 
called the Garlic Meadows. Fields about Runcorn, Cheshire. E.) 
P. May—June.^ 
A. schceno'prasum. Leaves cylindrical, awl thread-shaped, as long as 
the cylindrical stalk. 
Fuchs. 635— E. Bot. 2441— FI. Dan. 971. E.) Trag. 742. 2— Lonic. i. 194. 
2— Dod. 689— Kniph. 8— Loh. Ohs. 77. 1—Ger. Em. 177— Ger. 139. 1— 
H. Ox. iv. 14. row 1. 4— Matth. 550— Dod. 689.2 —Lob. Ohs. 78. 1. 
(About a foot high. Bulb cylindrical, slender, matted together. Umbels 
globular, thick, many-flowered, without bulbs. Sheath egg-shaped, 
shorter than the flowers. Petals expanding, spear-shaped, white or 
pinkish, with a purplish rib. FI. Brit. E.) 
Chive Garlic. Meadows and pastures. By Fast Castle, on the bor¬ 
ders of Berwickshire; and in Westmoreland. Cartmel Fell, in a small 
rivulet called Chivey Syke. Mr. Jackson. Meadows near Kirby-moor- 
side, Yorkshire. Mr. Flintoff. (On the basaltic rocks of Walltown, Nor¬ 
thumberland. Mr. Winch. E.) P. June.t 
FRITILLA 7 RIA4 Bloss. with six petals, each having a necta¬ 
riferous bell-shaped cavity at its base : Stam. the length 
of the blossom: Summit three-cleft: Caps, superior, 
three-celled. 
F. melea'gris. All the leaves alternate: stem single-flowered : (nec¬ 
tary strap-shaped. E.) 
Dicks. II. S. — (E. Bot. 622. E.)— FI. Dan. 972.— Curt. 218— Wale. — Jacq. 
Austr. v. App. 32— Kniph. 6— Renealm. 146— Clus. i. 153. 1— Ger. Em. 
149. 1— Ger. 122. 1 —Clus. i. 152— Dod. 233. 2— Ger. Em. 14g. 2 —Ger. 
122. 2— Park. Par. 41. 2— Swert. i. 7. 4. 
Root bulbous, solid, small for the size of the plant, throwing out numerous 
* An infusion in brandy is esteemed a good remedy for the gravel. Penn. Tour., 1772, 
p. 175. Other plants growing near it do not flourish. Cows eat it; but it communicates 
its flavour to the milk and butter ; so as to be very offensive, if not unwholesome, in the 
spring. (In Khamschatka it is used as a principal antiscorbutic, as well as for culinary pur¬ 
poses, and is gathered in large quantities for winter service. E.) 
t (It is preferred for early spring salads, and soups, being very hardy and milder than 
the other species. The roots are considered beneficial to cold, phlegmatic constitutions. E.) 
f (From frit Ulus, a dice-box ; which the form of the blossom may be supposed to resemble ; 
while the specific name imeheaypig, (as also applied to the Guinea-hen, Numida meleagris ,) 
is descriptive of its chequered appearance, not unlike that of a chess-board. E.) 
