. Annals of natural history. Natural history; Plants. 2!H) Babington on A. Porrum and A. Ampeloprasum. stamen, ami the anther-bearing point is only halt' the Length of either the common filament or of the barren points; but in the latter the segments of the perigone are longer ihan the common filament, to which the anther-bearing point is equal, but at the same time only one-third of the length of the barren points. In Gaudin's Fl. Helv. v. ii. t. 11. the perigone of A. Ampe- loprasum is figured as longer than the stamens, and thus not at all agreeing with our plant, which more resembl
. Annals of natural history. Natural history; Plants. 2!H) Babington on A. Porrum and A. Ampeloprasum. stamen, ami the anther-bearing point is only halt' the Length of either the common filament or of the barren points; but in the latter the segments of the perigone are longer ihan the common filament, to which the anther-bearing point is equal, but at the same time only one-third of the length of the barren points. In Gaudin's Fl. Helv. v. ii. t. 11. the perigone of A. Ampe- loprasum is figured as longer than the stamens, and thus not at all agreeing with our plant, which more resembles his figure of A. rot nudum, t. 10, in which he represents (and at p. 482 describes) the stamens as longer than the perigone, differing in this from all other writers who have described A. rotun- dum, quoting Clusius, Hist. v. i. p. 196. (for 190.) for A. ro- hi a dim instead of A. Ampeloprasum, to which it is usually, and, as it appears to me, correctly referred, and omitting A. Ampe- loprasum, YVald. and Kit. t. 82. which is generally considered as a good figure of A. rotundum. He has not given a repre- sentation of the root of A. rotundum, but those of A. Porrum and Ampeloprasum are pretty characteristic. I am not satisfied with his figures of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London, R. and J. E. Taylor
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