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ALLIUM arenarium.
Sand GarlicJc.
HEXANDRIA Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Cor. inferior, of 6 spreading petals.
Spatha cloven, containing many flowers. Umbel
dense; Stigma simple.
Spec. Char. Umbel bearing bulbs. Leaves flat with
cylindrical sheaths. Spatha blunt. Stamina three-
pointed. Petals roughish on the keel.
•Syn. Allium arenarium. Linn. Sp. P I. 426. Sm.
F I. B rit. 356. Huds. 138. With. 333. Hull. 7 2.
A . sylvestre amphicarpon, foliis porraceis, floribus et
nucleis purpureis. R a il Syn. 370.
W e have several times received wild specimens and bulbs of
this plant from Westmoreland and Yorkshire, the only counties
known to produce it. It grows in woods and fields, flowering
in July, after which numerous dark-purple bulbs spring forth
among the flower-stalks.
The radical bulb is ovate and brown. Stem erect, 3 feet
high, simple, round, smooth, leafy in the lower part. Leaves
flat, rough-edged, with long cylindrical sheaths. Umbel round
and dense. Spatha of 2 or 3 short, elliptical, concave, pointless
husks. Flowers red, bell-shaped. Three of the stamina
are simple, and the intermediate ones dilated, 3-forked, .the
middle segment bearing the anthera. Germen triangular.
The seeds are rarely ripened; but the plant propagates itself
readily by the bulbs, which fall in autumn from the umbel, and
will continue in a garden, unaltered in its habit, for many
years.