withered before the flowers expand. Umbel many-flowered,
spherical, dense, not producing bulbils. Spatha two-
valved, white, pointed and shorter than the umbel. Flowers
purple; sepals lanceolate with a darker scabrous keel, which
is strongly marked in the three external and shorter petals,
but obsolete yet still scabrous in the others ; they are all obtuse,
and distinct to their very base. The filaments of all
the stamens distinct at their base, the three alternate ones
three-cleft above their middle; all about twice as long as
the perianth.
The specimens figured were gathered on the sandy slopes
above St. Aubin’s Bay, Jersey, July 25th, 1837, where it
grows in company with A. vineale. It may be distinguished
from that plant by its not producing bulbils amongst the
flowers, and by the stalked offsets at the root. It is also
pointed out at a considerable distance by its very handsome
bright purple head of flowers. It is in perfection towards
the latter end of July.—C. C. B.
