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ERYSIMUM ALLIARIA. SAUCE-ALONE, Or, - 
| | = STINKING HEDGE-MUSTARD, 
SYNONYMA. Alliaria. Pharm. Geoff. ii. 58. Dale. 200. 
Alfion. ii. 79. Lewis, 31. Edinb. New Difpenf, 120. Murray, 
2. 317.  Burgius. 564. Bauh. Pin. 110. Gerard. Emac. 794s 
Park. Theat. 112. Ray. Hifl. 792. Synop. 293. Hall. Hifi, 
Stirp. Helv. 480. Eryfimum Alliaria. Hud. Ang. 286. With. 
Bot. Arr. 696. Ie. Curt. Flor. Lond. 144. so 
Tetradynamia Siliquofa. Lin. Gen. Plant. 814. 
Gen. Ch. Siliqua columnaris, exacte tetraédra. Ca/. claufus. 
Sp. Ch. E, foliis cordatis, | 
ROOT biennial, whitith, tapering, fibrous. Stalk erect, two or 
three feet in height, round, fmooth, channelled, fparingly branched. 
Leaves alternate, heart-fhaped, on footftalks, unequally toothed, 
veiny: on the upper part of the ftalk they are pointed, and narrower; 
at the root kidney-fhaped, and ftanding on long footftalks, Flowers . 
white, in terminal {pikes. Calyx of four leafits, which are ovate, 
concave, of a pale green. Corolla confifts of four petals, which are 
inverfely ovate, and placed in oppofite diretions upon ered claws. 
Filaments fix, tapering, four efwhich are long and ere&t, two fhort, _ 
and bent inwards. Antherz yellow, oblong, incumbent. Germenlong, — 
quadrangular, Style very fhort. Stigma roundifh. Pod two inches long, 
obfcurely quadrangular, marked with a prominent line between each ° 
angle; the cavity divided into two cells, containing oblong fhining 
brown feeds, which appear obliquely truncated at each end. 
It is common on hedge banks, and flowers in May and June. 
The leaves of this plant have a moderate acrimony, and a ftrong 
flavour, refembling that of garlic or onions ; they give the fame kind 
of taint to the breath as thofe roots, and have been ufed for the fame 
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