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Show Th BRITISH DEVISION BRITISH SPECIES i 1. Crow-Garlick.776%, / 4 lium fylveftre tenuifolium. BRITISH HERBAL, EReeRBSEDGDDR The root is fmall, roundifh, covered with a red fkin, and of a very ftrong tafte. The leaves are very long,flender, hollow, and of a pale green, The ftalk is round, upright, and a foot high. The head is fmall, and is frequently compofed altogether oflittle flethy fubftances, which fhoot out leaves in the mannerof roots, and take root when they fall: fometimes there are amongthefe fmall, greenifh flowers, It is common in paftures, and fometimes CL A Sis) <xIX amongicorn. Itflowers in June. C. Bauhinecalls it Allium campeftre juncifolium Plants whofe flower is compofed of fix petals, or has fix fegments ; whofe capitatum purpurafcens majus, fyloefire juncifolium. feed-veffel is divided into three cells, containing each a double feries of Others, Allium 2. Purple Mountain-Garlick, Seeds; whofe leaves are grally, and whofe root confifts of a fingle, roundifh Allium montanum purpureum majus, lump, with fibres from the bafe. T= are a numerous and very beautiful feries of plants; and all who have taken the plain The root is a large, round bulb, with many fibres at the bottom. The leaves are long, and fomewhat broad, flat road of Nature in forming fyftems of botany, have therefore kept them in one clafs, and atthe upper-fide, and hollowed underneath, and feparated all others from them. Raycalls them the bulbous rooted plants ; this kind of root being univerfally underftood by the term éu/b; and the leaves from all of them are long, flender, and without footftalks, which is the fenfe of the term gra/ly. Linnzus, as is his cuftom, takes the charaéter of the claffes in which thefe plants are arranged, from the numberof filaments in the flower; andin this inftance,as in every other, he feparates thofe genera which Nature hasallied into the moft remote parts of his fyftem; and joins with every divi. fion of them thofe which fhe feparates moft widely from them. ‘Thus, in his method, the colchicum and crocus, allied as clofely as two diftinét genera {can be, are feparated by three claffes; the crocus being one of his third, becaufe there are but three threadsin the flower sand the colchicum one ofhis fixth clafs, becaufe there are in that fix filaments. Let the unprejudiced examine thefe two plants, and judge between us, whether Linnaus have done well in feparating, or I in bringing them again together. The refpeét I havefor this author, notwithftanding my diflike to his fyftem, makes it difagreeable to me to accumulate cenfures upod him: but, in fupport of the exceptions made to his method in this refpect, I muft add, that, befide feparating thefe plants from one another, he has joined in the fame clafs with the crocus the zamarind-tree, and with the colsbicum and tulip he has placed the 4fparagus and berberry-bufp. SSechoeeecaeeeeencme of a fine deep green. The ftalk is upright, round, and two feet high. The head is round and large, purplith in colour, and compofed of numerous flefhy fubftances, asin the other, with a few faint red flowers between and among them. It is commonon hills in our northern coun- ties, and flowers in July. Raycalls it Allium montanumbicorne purpureum proliferum. 3. Striped Garlick, Allium flore firiato. The root is a fmall, roundifh bulb, of a white colour. The leaves are long, narrow, and ofa pale green, The ftalk is a foot and half high, round, and SER UES green, The flowers ftand in a clufter at the top; and they are of a greenifh white, ftreaked with purple, I; HERBAL : We have it among corn in Effex, Tt flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Ailinm montanum licorne flore exalbIbiido. s, Moly Clufius, M moutanum tert name others have followed, 4. Purple Garlick, Alliwalatifoliun lore purpu ra/cente. The rootis round, fim ple, and large. Theleaves are numer ous, broad, and of a deep gree n, The ftalk is a foot and half high. The flowers ftand at its top in a great round cluft er; and they are purple. 2 Wehaveit in the weitern counties not uncommon, It flowers in June, ® Vit Holnente lr bortcn axis Ray calls it Miu m Holme nfe fpherico capite. § Broad-leaved Wild Garlick. Allium fylveftre latifolium album. A6-7, a The root is round and whitith. The leavesare oblong, very broad , andof a fine deep green, The ttalk is of a pale green, three fquare, and ten inches high, The flowers ftand at the top in a cluft er; and they are {mall and white. It is common in damp ground, and flowers in April. C. Bauhine calls it Aium loefire latifolium, Our people, Ram/ons. 6. Great Mountain Garlick, Allium montanum elatins, The root is compofed of feveral fmall pieces, covered with one common kin, which is t uch ough and redifh, The leaves are broad, ftriated, and of a deep green. The ftalk is two feet and a half high, round, green, andjuicy. At its top flands a head, compofed of fle thy tubercles, of a blackith pu ple, with a few pale purple flowers between them, It is foundia the north of England, flowering in April. Britisu GENERA, DIVISION Thofe of which one or more fpecies are naturally wild in this country. IL FOREIGN CommonGarlick; Go ESN GAASR) 2027S Lei c Allium hortenfe. I Therootis compofed of numerous {mall pieces, ix. enclofed in one common kin. Theleaves are long and narrow, and ofa pale 4L4LI1U0”M. TT. flower is compofed of fix petals, and the feed-veffel is very broad and fhort. green, A number of thefe flowers are contained in a common fcabbard, which is roundifh, and terminates in # fingle or double point. Thefeeds are numerous, and roundifh. Linnzus ranges this among the hexandria monogynia ; the threads being fix and the ftyle fingle. 4 DpDIvti- The ftalk is round, upright, and fmooth. At the top ftand a great number of flowers, Collegted into a round, cluftered head: they are fall and whitith, SPECIES, It isa native of the Eaft, but for its uf cultivated every where in gardens, Some are fond of the root in food; andit is excellent in medicine. A fyrup of garlick is a great remedy in afthmas, It is alfo aperient, and goodinall ob{truétions of the vifcera, and is recommended againft contagious diforders, |