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five, ralher acute, hairy fegments. Cor. fuperior, of four 

 rmall,roundi(h, concave, very hairy petals. Stam. Filaments 

 .''u*ir, awl-ftiaped, thick, about the length of the calyx ; 

 -iiithers inverted, two-lobed, each lobe of two cells. Pift. 

 Gerwjti roundifti, between the calyx and corolla ;- ftyle awl- 

 ihaped, the length of the ftamens ; ftigma acute. Perk. 

 Berry large, oblong, obtufe, fmooth, flefhy, pendulous, of 

 one cell. Sads numerous, ovate, tumid, fomewhat com- 

 preffed, imbedded in pulp. 



EIT. Ch. Berry with numerous feeds. Germen between 

 tlie five-cleft calyx, and corolla of four petals. 



I. A. payos. Black -pudding tree. Muringulringue of 

 the Africans. — Obferved by Loureiro, at Mozambique, 

 near the eaitern coail of Africa. A large tree, with fpread- 

 ing branches, deftitute of thorns. Lea-ues oppofite, digitate, 

 of five oval, entire, hairy leaflets. Stalks many-flowered, 

 nearly terminal. Fruit reddifli-brovi'n. A cataplafm of 

 the leaves, applied to the back, below the kidneys,is faid to 

 promote delivery. Loureiro compares his plant, as to the 

 leaves and fruit, with the Jaracatia, Pif. Braf. 1 60. It is 

 eafy to trace the natural order of this Allafia, and its rela- 

 tionfhip to Carica. Having feen no fpecimens, we cannot 

 undertake to correft forae apparent inapcuracies, nor to 

 define the real character of the genus ; neither is it neceffary 

 liere to criticife, or to alter, the generic or fpecific name. 



ALLEGANY, in Geography, a county of New York, 

 containing 1942 inhabitants, of whom 21 are Oaves. 



ALLEGHANY, or Alleghany County, 1. 5, for 

 10,309 r. 25,317, and for 159 r. 24. 



Alleghany, in Maryland,!. 5, for 4809 r. 6909, and for 

 258 r. 620. Add — Alfo,a townfliip of Pennfylvania, in Cam- 

 bria county, having 610 inhabitants. — Alio, a townfliip of 

 Pennfylvania, in the county of Armftrong, containing 820 

 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfliip of Pennfylvania, in Somerfet 

 county, having 271 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfliip of 

 Pennfylvania, in the county of Venango, having 299 

 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfliip of Huntingdon county, in 

 Pennfylvania, with 1 159 inhabitants. ^-- 



ALLEN, a townihip of Pennlylvania, in Cumberland 

 county, having 1837 inhabitants. 



ALLENSTOWN, 1. 2. for 254 r. 346. 



ALLEN-TOWN, for 90 houfes r. 1291 inhabitants. 



ALLIGATOR, after Lacerta infert, fee Lizard. 



ALLIUM, in Botany, an ancient Latin name, of which 

 many different etymologies have been propofed, but none 

 has been thought perfeftly fatisfaftory, is deduced by De 

 Tlieis from the Celtic, all, fignifying hot, pungent, or 

 burning, than which nothing can be more fuitable, whether 

 «e confider the various kinds of Garlic, Onions, &c. in 

 common ufe, or the numerous wild ones. Several fpe(?ies 

 require to be added to the fifty-feven enumerated by our 

 predeceflbr, the late Dr. Woodville, in the firft volume of this 

 work. ( See Allium. ) We ftiall indicate their refpeftive 

 places in each feftion, interfperfing, in the fame order, a 

 few remarks concerning other fpecies. 



Seft. I. Stem leafy. Leaves Jlat. Umbel bearing cap- 

 fules only. 



I. A. Ampeloprafum. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 2. 63. n. 1. 

 Engl. Bot. I. 1657. El. Grasc. t. 312, unpubl. Curt. 

 Mag. t. 1385. 



j3. Smaller, with fweet-fmelling bright crimfon flowers. — 

 This variety is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, being 

 the A. AmpelcpraJ'um of Thunb. Prodr. 65. It m.ufl; not be 

 confounded with the (S of Curt. Mag. 1 385, WaldiL and 

 Kitaib. Hung. v. i. 84. t. 82, which Mr. Ker now thinks 

 a variety of arenarium, deprived of its flower-bulbs. The 

 fame botanift, fo deeply fliiUed in the plants of this natural 



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order and their allies, has exprelTed, like Liansus, aa 

 opinion of the real Ampdnprafum not being fpccifically dif. 

 tistt from the garden Leek, A. Pornim, n. 2. h feems to 

 us that the firaply flieathcd biennial root of this latter is 

 eflentially different from the large, globofe, aggregate, pe- 

 rennial bulbs of the other ; and the keels of the petals in 

 Porrtim are certainly much lefs rough, if ever at all fo, than 

 thofe of Ampeloprafum. A good figure of A. Porrum is 

 much wanted. 



Between 2 and 3. A. Diofcoridis . Sibth. in Prodr. Fl. 

 Gra:c. n. 764. (/^iXu ; Diofc. book 3. chap. 4.) — Found 

 in denfe bufliy fliady fitu«tions, in Caria, Myfia, and Cyprus. 

 " The Jlem, in a rich foil, fometimes attains the height of 

 five or fix feet. Umbel large. Flowers white, fomewhat 

 refembling thofe of Peganum Harmala, as Diofcorides ob- 

 ferves in fpeaking of the latter plant, book 3. chap. 53." 

 Such is all the information afforded by Dr. Sibthorp's MSS., 

 for he has left no fpecimen nor drawing of this intereiling 

 plant, fuppofed by him to be the /xiM/, or Moly, of Diof- 

 corides. He has not aff'orded us any materials for a fpecific 

 charafter. Can his plant be the A. orientale latifolum, flore 

 iiiagno lafteo ; Tourn. Cor. 26 ? Of this a fpecimen may 

 perhaps be found, in the coUeftions at Paris or Oxford. 



Se<9:. 2. Stem leafy. Leaves jlat. Umbel accompanied 

 by iulis. 



Here perhaps ought to have been inferted, on accoant of 

 itf near affinity to rofeum, our ambiguum, figured in Curt. 

 Mag. t. 978, and deftined to appear in Fl. Grxc. t, 327. 

 See Se<ft. 4. 



Se<ft- 3. Stem leafy. Leaves nearly cylindrical. Umbil 

 bearing capfules only. 



20, zi. A. margaritaceum. Pearly Garlick. Sm. Prodr. 



Fl. Grsc. Sibth. n. 770. Fl. Grace, t- 3 1 J, unpubl 



Stem bearing round leaves and an umbel of capfules. Leaves 

 channelled. Stamens three-pointed, prominent. Petals 

 obovate, obtufe. — Gathered by Dr. Sibthorp, about Prufa 

 in Bithynia, as well as on mount Athos, and in the iflands 

 of Naxos, Cyprus, and Cimolis. The bulb is about the fize 

 of a filberd, coated with brown ribbed fcales. Stefn folitary, 

 a foot high, ereft, round, flender, leafy in its lower half. 

 Leaves about four, fpreading, tapering, as thick as a crow's 

 quill, ralher glaucous, fmooth, fix inches long ; channelled 

 along the upper fide ; fheathing at the bafe ; the two lower- 

 moil iTiorter and foon withering. Umbel ereA, oval, ob- 

 tufe, denfe, attended at the bafe by feveral- fliort, reflexed, 

 jagged, white involucral fcales. Flowers on flender, afcend- 

 ing or upright, fimple flalks, an inch long at moft. Petals 

 obovate, concave, not a quarter of an inch in length, coa- 

 verging, ilreaked with green, white at the edges, purple at 

 the keel. Stamens white ; three of them fimple, awl-fhaped ; 

 three linear, with two long, lateral, fpreading, narrow feg- 

 ments. Germen turbinate, with 'fix prominent angles. 



26, 27. A. caucafeum. Crimfon Caucafian Garhck. 

 Ker in Curt. Mag. at the end of p. 1 143. (A. panicuia- 

 t\im ; ibid. t. 973, but not t. 1432. A. globofum ; Redout. 

 Liliac. t. 179, not t. 96 !) — Stem bearing thread-fliaped 

 fheathing leaves, and an umbel of capfules. One valve of 

 the fheath elongated and cylindrical. Stamens fimple. Pe- 

 tals ovate, acute,- Germen globofe. — Native of mount 

 Caucafus. Raifed by Mr. Loddiges, from feeds imported 

 from RufTia. The cylindrical leaves, globofe umbel, Ihorter 

 involucrum, ovate, not oho\aie petals, and round, even, nirt 

 oblong and channelled, germen, as well as the rofe-colourcd 

 fowers, are fufficient marks of diftinftion between this plant 

 and A. panicula'um, of which an imperfea figure, repre- 

 fentmg the leaves as cylindrical (contrary to nature and tbr 

 defcription) is gKea iB Curt. Mag. t. 1432. 



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