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ERYNGIUM MARITIMUM. 
Garlic may be taken in substance, from one to five or six cloves 
for a dose, or in powder, in doses of from ten to thirty grains ; the 
expressed juice may be taken to the quantity of one drachm, mixed 
with syrup, milk, or any other proper liquid. 
Off. Pp. Syrupus Allii, D. 
Medical Properties and Uses of the Leek and 
Onion. The properties of the leek and onion so nearly resemble 
those of the garlic that it would be a repetition to particularize 
either their properties or the diseases in which they have proved 
efficacious. Suffice it to say, that they may be used with advantage 
in most cases in which garlic would prove efficacious, but as their 
sensible qualities are less powerful than garlic, so their efficacy as 
medicines is proportionally weaker. Neither the onion nor the 
Jeek is often prescribed in present practice ; as articles of food 
they are much used, and when taken in moderation prove wholesome 
and nutritious, but when eaten to excess they are apt, like garlic, to 
excite thirst, head-ache, and flatulence. 

ERYNGIUM MARITIMUM. 
Sea Eri/ngo, or Holly * 
Class Pentandria. — Order Digynia. 
Nat. Ord. Umbellatje. 
Gen. Char. Flowers capitate. Receptacle paleaceous. 
Spec. Char. Radical Leaves obovate or reniform, plaited, 
spinous. Head peduncled. 
The ERYNGiUMf Maritimum is a perennial plant, indigenous on 
the sea shores of Britain, flowering in July and August ; the speci- 
men from which our drawing was taken, grew on the sandy shore 
* Fig. a. a stamen, magnified, b. A petal, c. A single floret, a little magnified. 
d, A palesB, magnified, e. The pistillam. /. The calyx. 
f Eryngo is generally supposed to be the tifvyyuv of Diosoorides^ liB. iii. c. 24. 
