SCORODOPRASUM I. Clu/. bif. 190. 
(G.) planta minor floribus faturate purpureo-rubentibus. G. 
ALLIUM Ampeloprafum. Wald. 8 Kitaib. plant, rar. bungar. 
is 84. tab. 82. 
Porros bravos. Lu/itanis. 
We own we can fee no reafon for believing this plant 
to be fpecifically diftin& from the Leek (A. Porrum), whofe 
origin is yet to be difcovered unlefs referred to the prefent 
fpecies, which we know to be native of the Levant, Portugal, 
Hungary, and of the Holms Ifland in the Briftol Channel. 
Clufius received it among. other bulbs from Conftan- 
tinople, where he fays it is a favourite vegetable. Haller 
doubts its claim toa Swifs origin. _Known in our gardens 
at leaft as far back as the days of Gerard. Flowers in July 
and Auguft. Our drawing was made from Mr. Haworth’s 
colleGtion. G, 
