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ALLIUM SATIVUM. COMMON CULTIVATED 
GARLICK. 
ST NO NT MA. Allium. Pbarm. Lond. &f Edinb. Gerard 
Emac.p. 177. Park.Tbeat.p. 513. Rati Hijl.p. 1125. Allium 
fativum. Baub. Pin. p. 7$. J. Baab.HiJl. iu p. 554. Allium 
llaminihus alterne trindis, foliis gramineis, capite bulbifero, radi- 
cibus in unura bulbum congruentibus. Hall. Opufc. 
mgogcSov L»rc&c. 
Clafs Hexandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 409. 
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Gen. Cb. Cor. 6-partita, patens. Spatha multiflora. Umbella 
congefta. Caps, fupera. 
Sp. Cb. A. caule planifolio bulbifero, bulbo compofito, flaminibu 
tricufpidatis. 
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THE root is perennial, compofed of feveral bulbs, enveloped m 
a common membrane, and from its bafe fends off many long white 
fibres : the item is fimple, and rifes about a foot and a half in height : 
the leaves at the root are numerous, on the Item few ; they are all 
long, flat, grafs-like : the flowers of all the plants of this fpecies 
which we have feen, arife between the fmall bulbs or rocamboles, 
which terminate the ftem in a duller : each flower is very fmall, 
whitifh, and commonly abortive : the calyx is a fpatha common to 
all the florets and bulbs ; it is withered, and of a roundifh ihape : the 
corolla confifts of fix oblong petals : the filaments are fix, tapering, 
alternately trifid, fhorter than the corolla, and furnifhed with oblon 
ered antherae : the germen is placed above the infertion of the coro!l 
iriort, angular, and fupports a fimple ftyle, terminated by an acute 
fligma : the capfuie is fhort, broad, trilobed. three-celled, three- 
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valved, and contains roundifh feeds, 'it flowers' in July 
This fpecies of Garlick, according to Linnams, grows fpontane- 
oufly in Sicily ; a but as it is much ufed both for culinary and medicinal 
Vide Sp 
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