HESE plants make their firft appearance 
with but one leaf, which refembles thofe of 
the grafs kind ; long, (lender and without a pe- 
dicle : Their roots are, for the moft part, bul- 
bous ; but their more diftinguifhable mark is, 
that their flowers are hexapetalous, or cut into fix 
fegments, and their fruit tricapfular. 
Cepa, Onion. The root is bulbous, and tunica- 
ted : The leaves are fiftulous : The flowers are 
hexapetalous, and colledted into a Ipherical head : 
The pointal turns to a roundifh fruit, divided 
into three cells. The fpecies are : 
1. Cepa fe 6 Hlis ^ juncif olio per ennis^ Mor. part 2.383. 
forrum juncif.C.^i, Schcenoprafon^ G.E. 176. Gives, 
or Chives. They have many leaves, about a hand- 
breadth high, (lender, and round like little Rufhes : 
The ftalks are fmall, tender, and bear heads of flowers 
like thofe of Onion, but much lefs : They have 
many little bulbs or headed roots fallen’ d together, 
out of which a great number of fmall fbrings (hoot 
down into the earth. It has the fmell of Onion, or 
Leek, but not of Garlick, In a place called Chivey- 
fykey in Cartmell fell, in Lancafiire y?hout fix miles 
from Kendal y W^eftmor eland -f . 
2. Allium fylveftrey R. 369, P. 870, G. E. 179. 
campeftre juncifolium capitatum purpurafeens majuSy 
C. 74, Crow Garlick. In dry paflures, and on 
walls. Its leaves are like the leaves of Rulhes, 
round, fmooth and hollow, with a little channel 
running lengthways : The feeds are kernels, or little 
bulbs, which generally put forth fmall green leaves, 
and form a bu(hy head \ this head is infolded in a 
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