Descr. Bulb within the loofe outer netted coverings of a 

 deep purple colour, growing out into long thick flefhy fiftular 

 flem-fheathing petioles^ which terminate in broad ilattifh ellip- 

 tically-lanceolate green blades, from four to fix inches long, 

 from half an inch to near two in breadth ; corolla of dirty fub- 

 diaphanous white colour, fometimes fuffufed with red ; the 

 whole plant, when bruifed, has a very rank fcent of Garlic. 

 Native of Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland, and Germany. 

 The root was confidered by the Bohemian miners, when worn 

 as an amulet, to be a fafeguard againft the attacks of certain 

 impure fpirits, to which they deemed themfelves expofed; 

 among them it was furnamed Siegwurz (Root of Viclory); hence 

 Viclorialh. By the fhepherds of other diftrifts it has been ufed 

 internally as a prefervative againft the effecls of fogs and 

 noxious exhalations ; a purpofe to which every fpecies of Garlic 

 is more or lefs adapted. 



Our drawing was taken at Mr. Salisbury's Botanic 

 Garden. G, 



