Crossword-Solution: ALLIUM 6 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Allium cepa (blood red var.) (Liliaceae).--Four flower-heads were covered with a net, and they produced somewhat fewer and smaller capsules than those on the uncovered heads.

Leek is the only allium I know of that may grow steadily but slowly through severe drought; the water-short gardener can depend on leeks for a fall/winter onion supply.

Allium cepa (Liliaceae).—The narrow green leaf, which protrudes from the seed of the common onion as a cotyledon,[4] breaks through the ground in the form of an arch, in the same manner as the hypocotyl or epicotyl of a dicotyledonous plant.

The apex is rounded, presenting here and there patches of grass, Aira, and Nardus, together with a few stunted shrubs--Viburnum, another Rhododendron, and Didymocarpus common, Caelogyne in profusion, Bolbophyllum cylindraceum in abundance, mosses, Lichens, an Allium also in abundance on the slopes, Stellaria in the woods towards the middle.

The first new plant that occurred was an Allium on rocks, but it had been dried up by the fires which had bared the surface of the hill of every thing, except the trees and stouter shrubs, capable of resisting its action.