L 1469 3 



Allium Cepa (/3). Common Onion. The 

 Bulb-bearing variety, or Tree-Onion. 



Generic Character. — Vid. No. 1420. 



Specific Cbaraficr and Synonyms. 



ALLIUM Cepa; fbulbus tunica! us, ovato-oblatove-globofus ;) foliis 

 paucis, fiftulofo-teretibus, acuminatis; fcapocavo attenuato- 

 cylindraceo infernc ventricofo multum brevioribus; vagina 

 brevi, fcariofa; umbclla capitata, numerofiflima, congefta; 

 pedicellis fiore longioribus; patenter* campanulata, laciniis 

 ovato-lanceolatis, exterioribus acutioribus, carinatis ; fila- 

 mentis has dimidio exfuperantibus, bafi breviter connexis, 

 alternis fimplicibus, caeteris de bad ovato-dilatata utrinque 

 breviter [nunc imperfecJe rarius omnino non) unidentato-incifa 

 filiformi-fubulatis ; germine albicante, depreffo-globofo, 

 pulvinatim trilobo, fexftriato; ftylo fetaceo ; capfula can- 

 dicante; feminibus hinc rotundatis, inde angulatis. G. 



ALLIUM Cepa. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2. 1. 431. Horl. Kew. \.p. 

 428. ed. 2. 2. 238. Regnault Bot. Willd. Sp. PL 2. 80. 



A. flaminibus alterne trifidis, caule ad terram ventricofo. Haller 

 de All. 10. Opnfc. 356. 12. 



CEPA. Mill. Ditl. ed. 7. 



CEPA vulgaris. Rudb. Ely/, tab. 141. fig. 1. Bauh. Pin. 71. 



C. alba. hifpanica oblonga. Gcr. Emac. 169. f. 1. 2. 



C. rotunda. Dodon. Pempt. 5. lib. 3. 675; cum k. 



(j3.) capitulo bulbifero, floribus paucis; nunc prolifero. C. 



ALLIUM Cepa. Herb. Bank/. Jpecimen ex horte regioKewenfi. 



Canada or Tree-Onion. Nicholforis Brit. Encychp. art. A l l i M ; 

 ubi male pro canadenfi habeiur. 



The indigenous abode of the Common Onion is flill un- 

 known to us. The prefent variety, in all our gardens, and 

 feme of our books, has been millaken for the canadenfc : a 

 fpecies than which no one of the fame genus can well be more 

 ditUnft from another; that having flat leaves, a {lender unin- 

 Hated ftem, uniform fimple ftamen?, and bulbs more like thofe 



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