'414 'April 1749. 



this plant in phyfic, it being the peculiar pre- 

 vince of the phyficians. 



A SPECIES of Leek*, very like that which 

 appears only in woods on hills in Sweden, grows 

 at prefent on almoft all corn-fields mixed with 

 farich The Englijh here called it Garlick. On 

 fome fields it grew in great abundance. When 

 the cattle grazed on fuch fields, and ate the gar- 

 lick, their milk, and the butter which was made 

 of it, tafted fo ftrong of it, that they were fcarce 

 eatable. Sometimes they fold butter in the Phi- 

 ladelphia markets, which tafted fo ftrong of 

 garlick that it was entirely ufelefs. On this 

 account, they do not fuffer milking cows to 

 graze on fields where garlicjc abounds : this they 

 referve for other fpecies of cattle. When the 

 cattle eat much of this garlick in fummer, their 

 flefh has likewife fuch a ftrong flavour, that it is 

 unfit for eating. This kind of garlick appears 

 early infpring; and the horfes always paffed by 

 it without ever touching it. 



* Allium arvenfe ; odore grav! t capttulis lulbofit rulentibus. See 

 Gronov, Flora Virginica, 37. This Leek feems to be Dr. Lin- 

 nauss Allium Canaden/e, fcapo nudo tereti, foliis linearibus f cepitufa 

 bulbifero. Spec. Plant. I. p. 431. F. 



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