Chives. Eight hair-like threads, the length of the blossom. Tips beardless, without the blossom and black.
Pointal. Seed-bud top-shaped, four-furrowed, narrowed at the top. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of Portugal.
Flowers from October till December.
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1. An umbel of flowers. 2. The Cup, magnified. 3. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 4. The Pointal, magnified[Pg 161]. |