Erysimum Alliaria. Sauce-alone. 



ERYSIMUM Linnai Gen. PL Tetradynamia Siliquosa. 



Siliqua columnaris, exadte tetraedra. CaL claufus. 

 Rail Syn. Gen. 21. Herb^e Tetrapetalje Siliquosa et Siliculos^:. 

 ERYSIMUM Alliaria foliis cordatis. Linntei SyJ. Vegetal, p. 499. Sp. PL p. 923. FL Suecic. n. 600» 

 ERYSIMUM Haller H'fi. p. 208. n. 480. 

 SISYMBRIUM Alliaria. Scopoli FL Cam. n. 825. 

 ALLIARIA Bauhin Pin. no. Gerard emac. 796. Parkin/on 112. 

 HESPERIS allium redolens. Rati Syn. 293. Jack by the Hedge, or Sauce-alone. 



Hud/on. FL Angl. ed. 2. p. 286. 



Lightfoot FL Scot. 186. 



RADIX biennis, albida, fufiformis, plurimis fibrillis 



inftru&a. 

 CAULIS ereftus, bi aut tripedalis, teres, laevis, fubftria- 



tus, inferne purpureus, villofus, fuperne ra- 



mofus. 

 RAMI pauci, alterni, erecti. 

 FOLIA alterna, petiolata, cordata, venofa, fubrugofa, 



inferiora longius petiolata, rotundata, fuperi- 



ora acuta, inaequaliter dentato-ferrata. 



FLORES nivei, terminales, ere&i, pedunculis longi- 

 tudine florum infidentes. 



CALYX: Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis oblon- 

 gis, pallide virefcentibus, obtufis, deciduis, 

 apice interne concavis, externe gibbis, fig. 1. 



COROLLA: Petal a quatuor, obovata, unguiculata, 

 unguis erectus, linearis, limbus patens, venis 

 paucis exaratus, fig. 2. 



STAMINA : Filament a lex, fubulata, alba, duo bre- 

 viora incurvata, quatuor longiora erecla, lon- 

 gitudineStyli,/g\ 3, 6: Anthers oblongae, 

 cOrdatae, flavas, incumbentes, erecras, fig. 4, 5. 



NECTARIUM : glandula rotunda folitariautrinque ad f 

 bafin Staminum longiorum, bafis vero Stami- I 

 num. breviorum glandula cingitur. y 



PISTILLUM : Germen obfcure tetragonum, oblon^ 

 gum, fig. 7 : Stylus breviffimus, fig. 8 

 Stigma capitato-truncatum. 



PERICARPIUM: Siliqua biuncialis, teres, fubte- 

 tragona, lineata, bilocularis, bivalvis, fig. 9 



SEMINA plurima, oblonga, fufca, nitida, ftriata, u 

 traque extremitate oblique truncata, diffepr 

 mento utrinque nidulantia,j%\ 10. 



ROOT biennial, of a whitifh colour, tapering, and 

 furnifhed with numerous fibres. 



STALK upright, from two to three feet high, round, 

 fmooth, fomewhat ftriated, at bottom purple, 

 and flightly hoary, at top branched. 



BRANCHES few, alternate, and upright. 



LEAVES alternate, {landing on foot-ftalks, heart- 

 fhaped, veiny, and fomewhat wrinkled ; the 

 lower ones ftanding on long foot-ftalks, and 

 round at the tips ; the upper ones pointed, 

 and unequally toothed or fawed. 



FLOWERS white, terminal, upright, ftanding on 

 fblks the length of the flowers. 



CALYX: a Perianthium of four leaves, which are 

 oblong, of a pale green, obtufe, the tips in- 

 ternally concave, externally gibbous, fig. 1. 



COROLLA : four Petals, inverfely oval, and claw- 

 ed ; the claw erect and linear ; the limb 

 fpreading, and grooved with a few veins, fig. 2. 



STAMINA : fix Filaments tapering, and white ; 

 the two fhorter ones bending inwards ; the 

 four longer ones upright, the length of the 

 Style, fig. 3, 6 : Anthers of an oblong heart 

 fhape, yellow, incumbent, and upright, 



fig- 4, 5- 

 NECTARY, a fmall round fmgle gland, placed on 

 each fide at the bafe of the longeft Stamina ; 

 but the bafe of each of the fhorteft Stamina, 

 is wholly furrounded by a glandular fubftance. 



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PISTILLUM : the Germen obfcurely four corner'd, 

 and oblong, Jig. 7 : Style very mort,^g\ 8 : 

 Stigma, forming a little head, appearing 

 as if cut off. 

 SEED-VESSEL : a Pod about two inches long, round, 

 obfcurely quadrangular, with a fine prominent 

 line between each angle, of two cavities and 

 two valves, fig. 9. 

 - t SEEDS numerous, oblong, brown, mining, finely 

 I grooved, obliquely cut off at each end, and 



¥ partly buried in the diffepimentum on each 



I fide, fig. 10. 



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THE whole of this plant, on being rubbed, difcovers a ftrong fmell of Garlic, whence its name of Alliaria. 



Medicinally, the leaves are recommended internally, as fudorifics and deobftruents, fomewhat of the nature of 

 Garlic, but much milder ; and externally, as antifeptics, in gangrenes and cancerous ulcers : Lewis's ' Difp. p. 78. 



Dietically it is ufed in fauces ; and by the country people eaten with bread and butter : Rati Hijl. PL et Syn. 



The feeds bruifed, and put up the noflrils, are faid to promote fneezing : Rail Hijl. PL p. 792. 



The Curculio Alliar'm ', Linn. Faun. Suecic. n. 580, perforates and dwells in the ftalks of this plant : FL Suecic. 



If eaten by Cows, which it appears to be from Linnjeus's experiments, it will be liable to give a difagreeable 

 tafte to the milk ; mould this happen, the Farmer will eafily deftroy it, as it is a biennial. 



It grows very common by hedge fides ; flowers in April and May. 



Scopoli obferves that it does not retain the generic character of an Ervfimum, wherefore he arranges it as 

 a Sijymhium. 



