to any described plant. It has the smooth striae of the Garden
Chives, which it exceeds in size, and ol which it has not the
crowded tufts of leaves. Its scape is hard, with a small hollow;
its umbel lax, the pedicels at least equalling in length the
perianth, which is patent, with sharp lanceolate-pointed segments
not much longer than the stamens; its anthers pale
purple. In all these the leaves and scape are upright as in
A. Schcenoprasum, or merely a little curved outwards, and, as
in that, the umbel does not nod before flowering.
Much difficulty attends the determination of the synonyms
of our plant. Even the few adduced above are scarcely to be
reckoned certain. Specimens of it sent from Moscow as A.
sibiricum are in Sir W. J. Hooker’s herbarium ; and from the
curved leaves, we think the rude figures of Buxbaum and
Gmelin belong to it, yet probably Gmelin, and Linnaeus too,
united different plants. No author that we have consulted
alludes to the remarkable curvature of the leaves, unless
Gmelin’s “ ad exortum non raro annulata quasi ” was intended
to express it. We know not where Dietrich has described
his A. rejlexum mentioned by Steudel. The name would well
suit our plant.—W. B.
Notes on 2906 above.
Mr. W. Andrews finds both A. Ampeloprasum and A. Ba-
bingtonii in Great Arran Island, Galway Bay, and has kindly
communicated his opinion that they are mere varieties of one
species.
A. Ophioscorodon proves, on acquaintance with the living
plant, to differ from A. sativum only in its larger size, and in
the spheroid, not oval, shape of its head-bulbs.—W. B.