2906.
ALLIUM Babingtonii.
Babington’s Garlic.
HEXANDRIA Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Perianth single, of six petaloid leaves.
Starn. inserted at the base of the perianth.
Anth. incumbent. Germ, superior, of three lobes
inclosing the base of the style. Stigma simple,
or slightly incrassated.
Spec. Char. Umbel loose, irregular, with numerous
spheroidal bulbs. Leaves broad, linear-acuminate,
deeply carinate, with carinate sheath and
rough edges and keel. Inclosed root-bulb compound,
of few [2] divisions- Spatha long-pointed.
Perianth trigono-ovate; its leaves connivent,
rough, minutely apiculate. Filaments with an
incurved apex when young: alternate ones dilated,
trifid ; united part longer than the anthe-
riferous point. Anthers exserted.
Syn. Allium Halleri. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. 305.
(excl. syn.)
B e s i d e s the cursory notice in the British Flora, ed. 5.
p. xxxviii, we find no record of our plant except in the Manual
of British Botany, unless the larger figure of the cut of Allium
montanum bicorne, &c. in Rudbeck’s Campi Elysii, v. 2.p. 155,
was taken from it. Our figure was drawn from the produce
of bulbs brought by Mr. Eagle from the neighbourhood of
Grade and Ruan Minor, Cornwall. We have seen the plant
there in great luxuriance, but only in or near old orchards,
though we could not learn that the inhabitants, make any use
of it. In Ireland it is probably a true native, Mr. W. Mac-
Calla having found it near Roundstone, Galway, and in the