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thers; but as it coalefces into lumps after 

 the beds have been ufed for fome time, they 

 have left off* making ufe of them. I omit 

 the ufe of this plant in phyfic, it being the 

 peculiar province 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 fand. The Englijh here called 

 it Garlick. On fome fields it grew in great 

 abundance. When the cattle grazed on 

 fuch fields, and ate the garlick, their milk, 

 and the butter which was made of it, tafted 

 fo ftrongly of it, that they werefcarce eatable. 

 Sometimes they fold butter in the Philadel- 

 phia markets, which tafted fo ftrongly of 

 garlick that it was entirely ufelefs. On 

 this account, they do not fufFer milking 

 cows to graze on fields where garlick 

 abounds : this they referve for other fpecies 

 of cattle. When the cattle eat much of 

 this garlick in fummer, their flem has like- 

 wife fuch a ftrong flavour, that it is unfit 

 for eating. This kind of garlick appears 

 early in fpring ; and the horfes always 

 pafled by it, without ever touching it. 



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* Alhum arvenfe ; odore gravz, capitulls bulbojis rubenti- 

 bus. See Gronov. Flora Virginica t 37. This Leek feems 

 to be Dr. Linnaeus' s Allium Canadenfe, fcapo nudo terett, 

 foliis line ari bus t capitulo bulbifero* Spec, plant, I. p. 431. F. 



