BROAD-LEAVED GARLIC; or, RA\- 

 S O M S . — Allium nrsin urn . 



Class Hexandria. Order Digynia. Nat. Orel. Lii.iace.e. 

 Lily Tribe, 



It is not wise Avlicii gatlieriiig a wild nose- 

 gay to place this flower among the otliers, 

 though its clusters of Avhite blossoms and 

 bright-green leaves would render it ornamental. 

 Few of our wild plants have a more powerful 

 or a more disagreeable odour ; and so long is 

 it retained, that if placed in an herbarium, the 

 other specimens near it become scented with 

 garlic. The stem of this plant is triangular, 

 and the leaves are so like those of the Lily of 

 the Valley, that in the early part of May, the 

 rambler in the moist wood might 1)elieve it to 

 be full of that lovely plant, till some unwary 

 footstep crushed a leaf, and the garlic was 

 betrayed by its odour. The flower is not 

 uncommon, either in the wood or on the 

 hedge-bank, during the latter ])art of ^lay, 

 ])ut has generally withered by the middle of 

 June. In the Isle of Man it is very abundant, 

 and the grave-yard of the church of Kirk 

 Braddon is so full of it, that often when the 

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