2963.
ALLIUM triquetrum.
Three-sided Garlic.
Gen. Char. Perianth single, of six petaloid segments
; stamens inserted in its base. Anthers
incumbent. Germen superior, 3-lobed, enclosing
the base of the style. Stigma simple, or slightly
incrassated.
Spec. Char. Umbel without bulbs, lax, secund,
drooping. Leaves sharply keeled. Scape triangular.
Spathe of two lanceolate valves. Perianth
campanulate; segments with one line. Filaments
all simple, shorter than the perianth.
Syn. Allium triquetrum. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 431.
Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 2. 238. Pot. Mag. 869.
G. Don in Mem. Wern. Soc. v. 6. 87. Gouan, PI.
24. Desf. FI. Atl. v. 1. 287.' Brot. FI. Lusit..
v. 1. 567. DeC. FI. Fr. ed. 3. v. 3. 222. Guss.
FI. Sic. Prod. v. 1. 401. Bertol. FI. Ital. v. 4.
57. Reich. FI Excurs. v. 2. 40; Ic. FI. Germ.
et.Helv. v. 10. 27. t. 503./. 1101.
Tholycaule et foliis triangularibus. Park. Parad.
142, 143./. 5.
D lS C O V E R E D in Guernsey by the Rev. T. Salwey, in
1847, and subsequently observed by him and C. F. Lukis,
Esq., in damp, shaded situations in many parts of the island,
in Catel, Forest, and St. Martin’s parishes, flowering in spring.
Mr. Lukis sent us specimens in May 1850. It had been previously
recorded as a native of the South of Europe and North
of Africa.
Rootstock small, with slender fibres, and supporting a small