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will, in a few days, change to a beautiful red. I8 
flowers late. 
3. Allium Holmenfe fph^erico capite. Scorodopra-' 
Jum diPlum^ R. 370. primum Cliifii^ G. E. 180. AU 
Hum fph^rico capite^ folio latiore^ five Scorodoprajum 
ulterum^ C. 74. Great Round-headed Garlick of 
Holm's ifland. The leaves are keeled, and larger 
than Leek’s leaves : The flalk grows to a great 
height, is about a finger thick at the bottom, naked 
at the top, and gradually ends in a Rufn-point: The 
head is covered with a membranous hufle, under 
which comes forth a purplifli ball of flowers, con- 
fifling of whitifli fpreading leaves : The root is thick, 
as big as a little Onion, confifts of many white coats, 
and is furnifhed with a bunch of fibres, almofl as 
big as the ball of flowers ; it has likewife triangular 
bulbs growing to the out-fide, wrapp’d up in hard 
coats. Its tafle and fmell is milder than Common 
Garlick. It flowers in June and July, 
4. Allium fylvejire latifolium^ R. 370, C. 74. ur- 
ftnum^ G. 141. Ramfons. In IVeJtmor eland,, 
Common in moifl and fliady places, and flowers in 
April. The ftalkis triangular: The leaves are broad 
and pointed •, and the flowers of a.fair white colour. 
It has a ftrong fmell of Garlick. 
5. Allium fylvejire amphicarpon,, foliis pcrraceis,^ 
florihus C? nucleis purpureis,, R. 370. Broad-leav’d 
Mountain Garlick, with purple flowers. It rifes 
a cubit, or a cubit and a half high : The leaves are. 
broad, keel’d, fliriped, and fmooth, like to the 
leaves of Leeks : Three, for the mofl; part, grow 
on a (talk, enfneathing it in their lower parts, 
and when they feparate from it, which is early in 
the fpring, they fhoot to about a fpan in length •, but 
fo foon as it comes to perfedfion, tliey wither away : 
I The root is fmall, compofed of a great number of 
I kernels, enclofed in a dark purplifli membrane ; from 
I the largeft of which, in the year following, rifes a 
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