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anil gravies. It is also put into pickles, and in the East Indies they use an abundance 

 of it for this purpose. It tiu'ives well in Jamaica, 



The eschalot is easily pi'oj)agatecl from the smaller roots or offsets, and the time of 

 taking thtni up is determined by -the withering of tlie leaves. 



2. PORRUM. LEKK. 



Umbel globose ; stamens three-cusped; petals with a rough keel ; root coated. 

 This is the common ceck, wliich is leafy nt bottom. Tlie spathe i shortly c^^nical, 

 deciduous. Flowers in a close large ball, on purple peduncles ; corolla also purplish, 

 'l-^ie leek is propagated from seeds, whicli are knovi'n to be ripe by the heads hanging 

 down. The ieaves are much of the same nature with those of the scallion, noticed under 

 the article onion, of V/Iiich it is a variety. 



3. SCllOENOPRASUM. 



This is the cn^ or f/^^Ve. The leaves are awl-shaped, hollovVj and the stemnaked ; 

 bulbs long, Hat. oval, connected by vecti-linear planes. This is a small sort of onion, 

 iUiu has iuuch tiie same taste, smell, anil virtues; it is propagated by parting the roots. 



See Garlic mid Onion. 

 Essence of Lemon Tree See Savin Tree. 



Xo EnsiUsh Name. ETHULIA. 



'iy 



' Cl. 1 9, OR. 1 . Syngenesia j)ol%/gamia (equalis. Nat. os..-T-Compos)tce. 



'Gen. cmAr. Calyx many-leaved, leaflets linear ; corolla compound, tubular, co- 

 roUets hermaphrodite; Stamens have five filaments, with cyluidric anthers; the 

 pistil has a prismatic germ, a filiform style, and two recurved stigmas ; there is no 

 pericarp, the calyx unchanged ; seeds solitary, no down ; receptacle naked, con- 

 vex^ excavated with points. One species is a native of Jamaica. 



STRUCHIUM. 



Herbaceum sub-assurgens, foliis ohlongo ovatis, utrinque productis^ 

 capitulis cojistipafis ad alas. Browne, p. 312, t. 34, f. 2. 



Flowers axrliary, sessile, all tnful. 



This rises generall) to the height of two feet and a half, ormore; the leaves alter- 

 iiate, oblong, entire. Flower bunches in'tersjjersed with a few smaller ones, that rise 

 between the common cups, as they stand compacted together at the axils of the lea\'es. 

 Calyx bell-shaped, imbricate, \tfith unequal narrow acuminate scales; from erect 



, spreading ; corollets nearly equal, the marginal ones trifid, the central four-partel ; 

 germ oblong, angular, crowned with its proper calvx, which has about four little 

 notches ; style longer than the corolla ; stigmas oblong, rcvolute j receptacle tumidj 



. di/ttcd. Bro-tcne, 



Ettoiv Sec Clamjiv Ciierrv. 



EYEBRICHT, 



