ƒ 8. (not good.) Roth Man. Bot. Germ. 138.
Red. Lil. v. 7. t. 379. G. Don in Mem. Wern.
Soc. v. 6. 7 ? Mack. FI. Hibern.pt. 1. 285.
A. seu Moly montanum latifolium. Bauh. Hist,
v. 2. 559./.*
Porrum Scorodorpasnm. Reich. FI. Excurs. 110.
no. 754.
T H I S Garlic is not common in the British Islands, although
it has been observed in Scotland and Ireland, as well as in
many places in the north of England. Our figure is from a
specimen sent by Mr. John Tatham, in July 1843, from the
neighbourhood of Settle, where it grows in meadows and
thickets on a limestone soil. We trust that our endeavour to
elucidate the species will prove acceptable, the figure given
as A. arenarium in English Botany, t. 1358, representing a
very different plant, apparently, if we except the small detached
bulb, of the same section of the genus as A. Schoeno-
prasum. In this opinion we have the concurrence of Mr. Don,
who now candidly expresses much doubt whether the A. arenarium
of his own Monograph can be doprasum. distinct from A. Scoro-
Plant perennial by renewal. Root a tuft of whitish slightly
branched fibres, crowned with a little knob, from the upper
side of which arise, side by side, a single scape and a sessile
bulbf, with three or at most four leaves, closely sheathing
both w’ithin their white tubular base, which, again, is coated
externally with several brown scariose shells, the remains of
a former bulb, and surrounded by smaller bulbs, the offsets
of the preceding year, now released by the decay of the leaves
within and between the bases of which they were produced.
This bulbous base of the plant scarcely exceeds the size of a
walnut, and tapers upwards. Inclosed bulb varying from the
size of a pea to that of a hazel-nut, subglobose, gibbous, api-
culate, dark crimson, with a solid white nucleus, within which
at length germinates the herb of the following year. Offset-
bulbs of the same colour, more lengthened and compressed,
raised upon white filiform stalks to the summit of the principal
bulb, or even to some distance above it, and closely appressed
* The description and figure are copied from Clusius, from whom also JRoahyn (swonh o( Ghaesr . coEpmie.d) tahned d ePsacrrkipintisoonn inh ahvies obwornr oHwisedt. PthI.e p f.i g1u1r1e9, ) oofb swehrvicehs tahs atth iety r eaprree aselsnot si tno oR medaonuyt éle’sa vfiegsu.r eT-.he stamens, too, are too much exserted,
foutn dB uonlbes ounslyu.ally two, sometimes one, according to Scopoli. We have
to the scape. Leaf-sheaths investing the scape to about one-
third of its height, faintly striated, compressed, two-edged,
the edge continued from the keel of the leaf sharper than the
other*; inner membrane produced, so as to form a narrow
white intra-foliaceous stipule. Leaves 6 to 9 inches long,
4 to 6 lines wide, of a pale grass-green, flaccid, somewhat
twisted upward, linear, bluntish, with a short laterally compressed
point, striated, flat or but slightly carinate except near
the bas^, edges and keel roughish with minute pellucid teeth.
They sometimes remain, but are more usually dried up when
the plant is in flower. Scape 2 or 3 feet high, cylindrical,
smooth, slender and wavy, yet firm and solid. Spatha, in
all that we have seen, single, scariose, short and broad with
a short hollow point f, soon torn or altogether disappearing.
Head compact, globular, sometimes double, parti-coloured
from the intermixture of white, crumpled, filmy bracteal scales
with the dark bulbs. These are numerous, not so large as a
pea, rounded, but angular below from mutual pressure, mu-
cronate, shining, of a dark purplish olive, but covered whilst
young with a redder shell, which is often pale and membranous
upward with a short green point. Flowers mostly few,
never so numerous as the bulbs, among which they rise on
dark purple stalks of unequal lengths, but all generally much
longer than the bulbs, thickened immediately under the flower.
Perianth ruby-coloured or of a paler hue, according to the
degree of exposure ; its segments oblong, rounded, connivent,
but with a minute recurved apiculus from the darker roughish
keel ; the three outer ones, as usual in the genus, rather narrower,
more concave and more strongly keeled. Stamens
varying in hue like the perianth, and often as dark, close together,
overarching the germen, but patent upward, and again
slightly incurved immediately below the anthers ; their lower
part minutely ciliated : simple filaments tapering from a broad
base ; trifid ones twice as wide, the united part straight-sided,
twice the length of the fertile point, which is about twice as
long as the anther, and scarcely so high as the simple filaments
; lateral points more than twice as long, tapering to a
pale curled thread. Anthers purple, with pale pollen { partly
* With the. exception of Roth, all the authors that we have consulted who regard the plant as A. arenarium of Linnaeus, follow him in describing the lfeigauf-rseh.eaths as round, and Redouté represents them so in his otherwise faulty
“ gte nSermailtlhy, i”n M Eancgkl.a By iont. F sIa.y Hs, “ib Berranct“e aosft 2e no ro 3f .3” segHmoeonktesr.” in FRIe. dSocuotté, gsaivyess, i2n sBhoaruth sineg’sm pehnrtass. e iSn ctohpeo. lPi idneasxcr sibeeesm ist t“o Sipmapthlya tlwonog alo.”n g sTphaet h“s .b icHoranlele ”r says in his Hist. Stirp. Helv., “ Vagina bieornis, altero cornu longo, altero bshroevrti :s ”p aythet hinis aocwconr fdiagnucree , winit hh isR eudpitpioiuns ’osf dtehsec rFiIp. tJioenn,e nccs visa, grienpar eusneinctosr nonise, brevior.”
î “ Antheræ flavæ.” Pollich.