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ALLIUM Schoenoprasum.
Chive Garlick.
IiEXANDRIA Monogynia.
Gen. Char, Cor. inferior, of 6 spreading petals,
Spatha cloven, containing many flowers. Umbel
dense. Stigma simple.
Spec. Char. Stalk naked, round, the height o f the
foliage. Leaves round, somewhat tapering.
Syn. Allium Schoenoprasum. L inn. Sp. P I. 432.
Sm. F I. B r it, 360. L ig h tf. 180. Huds, 649.
With. 335. H ull ed. 2. 95. ' F I. B>an, t. 971.
Schoenoprasum. G er.em . 176.
D r . PARSONS, formerly, lecturer on anatomy at Oxford,
observed this plant wild, as he judged, by Fast castle, on the
borders of Berwickshire, and Mr. Lightfoot was told it had
been found in the Nether Lome, Argyleshire. Hudson and
Withering say it grows in Westmoreland and Yorkshire, so
we presume there can be no doubts on the subject. We have
only seen garden specimens. This species is often cultivated
by cottagers, being eaten either raw or dressed, like others of
its foetid brethren.
The roots consist of slender, pale, upright, tufted, perennial
bulbs. Leaves three or four, radical, slightly spreading, tubular,
cylindrical, taper-pointed, rather glaucous, sheathing the
stalk with their dilated bases. Stalk solitary', about a foot
high, being nearly the height of the leaves, cylindrical,
smooth. Spatha of two ovate leaves, shorter than the umbel,
which is dense, formed of many purplish-rosecoloured flowers,
whose stamens are all simple.
The reader of the Flora Britannica is requested to correct
an error of the press in the name, which should be written as
above, alluding to the habit of the plant, from yog, a rush.