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Sweet-fcented Garlic. 



CLASS 



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ORDER 



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HEXANDRIJ MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One PointaL 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx. Spatha communis, fubrotunda, mar- 

 cefcens, multiflora. 



Corolla. Petala fex, oblonga. 

 Stamina. Filamenta fex, fubulata^ longitudine 

 faepe coroUae. Antherae oblongse, ere6t3e. 



PisTiLLUM. Germen fuperum, breve, fubtri- 

 gonum, angulis linea infculptis. Stylus 

 fimplex. Stigma acutum. 



pEKiCARPiuM. Capfula breviflimaj lata^ triloba, 



trilocularis, irivalvis^ 

 Semina pauca, fubrotunda. 



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Empalement. Spath common, roundifli, wi- 



thering, incloling many flowers. 



Blossom. Petals fix, oblong. 



Chives. Six threads, awl-fliaped, often the 

 length of the bloflbra. Tips oblong, up- 



' right. 

 PoiNTAL. Seed-bud above, fhort, nearly three- 



fided, the angles marked by a line. Shaft 



fimple. Summit pointed. 

 Seed-vessel. Capfule very fhort, broad, of three 



lobes, three cells, and three valves. 

 Seeds a few, roundilh. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Allium fcapo nudo, tereti, longiflimo; follis ca- 

 naliculatis, linearibus; umbella multiflora^ 

 corollis albidisj ftaminibus fubulatis, ad 



baiin cum petalis definentibus in tubum. 



Garlic with a naked flower-ftem, cylindrical, and 

 very long; leaves channelled, and hnear; 

 nmbel many flowered j bloflbms white; 



awl-fliaped, terminating with the 



chi 



ives 



petals at the bafe in a tube. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The BloflTom cut open. 



2. One Petal of the Bloflbm and its Chive, magnified 



3. The Polntal and Seed-bud. 



4. A Capfule with ripe Seeds. 



From a plant in the colleaion of J. Vere, Efq. Kenfington Gore, our drawing was made, this year 



«iriy m the month of May 

 iidered as a new ge 



inllanccs; but as o\ 



we have retained it under Allium. The flowers of this plant are fragrant in the extreme, at mgnt 



room 



^ like the Heliotrope. 



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fo much fo, that one is fuflScient to fcent 



Being a native of Barbadoes, from whence it wal fent bv Mr. J. Ellcock in 1 701, to Meflr 



Kennedy, Hamraerfmith, it requ 



bed, it wiU flower, aad incrcafe 



