the root-bulb, except that its divisions appear to be more
numerous. A. Porrum is almost cylindrical in the lower part
of the plant; the bases of its leaf-sheaths are very fleshy, and
no inclosed bulbs are perceptible, in the flowering-season at
least, so that a section presents the appearance of a simple
tunicated bulb.
Our plant has been taken for Haller’s No. 2, the A. Sco-
rodoprasum J3 of Linnaeus, A. Scorodoprasum (as we have
already observed) of many later authors, and A. Ophiosco-
rodon of others. We are unacquainted with that plant, having
never seen it living; but it is impossible that ours could be
supposed, as that has been, a mere variety of A. sativum.
The true A. carinatum of Linnaeus has uniform simple
stamens, and is allied to A. oleraceum and to A. carinatum,
Smith, and still more nearly to A. flexum, Wald, and Kit.,
which Koch (Syn. ed. 2. p. 832), incorrectly as we think, regards
as the same. It is well described by Fries (Nov. FI.
Suec. ed. 2. p. 86), and figured by Reichenbach (Icon. Bot.
t. 416). Fries finds it at Wram in Scania, the place mentioned
by Linnaeus in his FI. Suec. We have no reason to
believe it a native of bur islands.—W. B.