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drangular : thQ fdiqu^ are fhort, ered, round, or 

 flighciy quadrangular : the feeds arc oval, finely 

 dotted, and reticulated. 

 The young leaves in the fpring ?re fometimes eaten 

 in fallads, but to moil people they have a bitter 

 unpleafant talie, 



allinria 3. ERYSIMUM foliis ccrdatls. Sp. pi. 922. (Ger, 

 em, 794. Moris. hiJL /. j. /. lo /. 6. Blackwell t. 



Jack-by-the-hedge, or Sauce-alone. Anglis, 

 In hedges and wafte places-, under SaUJhury craigs, 

 &c. Dr. Parfons. ^. V. VI. 



The flalks are a yard high-, the branches nearly 

 ere6l -, the leaves thin, flaccid, and ferrated, 

 fmelling like garlick when bruifed : the flowers 

 are white : ihtfiliojAa hardly quadrangular, but 

 round, with tv;o lateral elevated lines, the mid- 

 dle ones icarceiy prominent : the membrane 

 which runs between the valves is fpongy, and the 

 feeds, which are cylindrical and furrow'd, are 

 imbedded in it. 



The leaves were formerly in ufe for feafoning fa- 

 voury dlllies, but are at prefent little regarded, 

 the different kinds of Allium being efteemed 

 much more preferable. 



An outward application of them is recommended 

 by Boerhavey and others, in gangreens and can- 

 cerous ulcers. 



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