exserted beyond the perianth. Lobes of the germen longitudinally
furrowed; their interstices with a transverse projecting
line, the portion below which is excavated. Style shorter
than the stamens, trigonal, pale. Capsule we have not seen
perfected.
The flower-stalks are usually one-flowered, but now and
then in strong plants a lengthened one supports a small secondary
head. The parts of the flower are occasionally sportive,
the segments of the perianth varying to five or four, and
those of the stamens, which are properly simple and tapering,
becoming widened upwards, or acquiring one or two short
lateral points. The bulbs of the head are sometimes viviparous
before they fall. In large plants, clusters of smaller and
longer bulbs, crowded in one spath-like scale, are often found
among those of the ordinary Wahlenberg and Fries regsharadp et haen dA s.i zvei.neale of authors
(Engl. Bot. t. 1974) as the original.4. arenarium of Linnaeus;
and Fries asserts that no one who has visited the Linnean
stations of the species can doubt that it is so, endeavouring
too, not very successfully perhaps, to account for Linnaeus’s
ascription of flat leaves to his plant. However this may be,
the specimens preserved in the Linnean herbarium for both
species appear to belong alike to the plant before us, which
the two eminent Swedish botanists concur in regarding as
the A. Scorodoprasum, Linn. It is not however the Scorodoprasum
of the old books. The figure so named by Lobel,
Stirp. Hist. p. 79, repeated in his leones, t. 196, reprinted by
Clusius (Hist. p. 190) and Johnson (Ger. Em. p. 180. ƒ. 2),
and copied by Parkinson (Theatr. p. 872), by J. Bauhin
(Hist. v. 2. p. 554), and by Morison (Hist. v. 2. sect. 2. t. 15.
f. 12), is usually, and, we believe, correctly, referred to A. Am-
peloprasum (Engl. Bot. t. 1657). The Scorodoprasum of Ge-
rarde (Ger. Em. p. 180. ƒ 1*) is again different, probably
the Great Leek of our kitchen gardens (A. Porri var.?),
although the bulb is made too thick; and the figures of barren
plants under the same name in Matthiolus (in Diosc.) and
Camerarius (Epit. Matth.) may belong to the same. Among
modern botanists, Villars, DeCandolle and other French
authors, as well as Roth, Wallroth, Bluff and Fingerhuth, &c.,
take for A. Scorodoprasum the /3. of Linnaeus, Scorodoprasum
secundum of Clusius, Ophioscorodon dictum quibusdam of J.
Bauhin, A. Ophioscorodon of Don, which is nearly allied to
A. sativum, if not a mere variety, as Treviranus regards it
and Koch suspects it to be.—W. B.
* A reversed copy of Porrum syriacum, Tabern. Kraut, p. 872./. 1.