Erysimum Alliaria. Sauce-alone. 
ERYSIMUM Linnai Gen. PI. Tetradynamia Siliquosa. 
Siliqua columnaris, exade tetraedra. Cal. claufus. 
RaiiSyn.Gen. 21. Herbae Tetrapetalae Siliquosa et Siliculosa®. 
ERYSIMUM Alliaria foliis cordatis. Linnai Syjl. Vegetab. p. 499. Sp. PI. p. 923. FI. Suecic . n. 600. 
ERYSIMUM Haller Hijl. p. 208. n. 480. 
SISYMBRIUM Alliaria. Scopoli FI. Cam. n. 825. 
ALLIARIA Bauhin Pin. no. Gerard emac. 796. Parliinfon 112. 
HESPERIS allium redolens. Rail Syn. 293. Jack by the Hedge, or Sauce-alone. 
Hudfon . FI. Angl. ed. 2. p. 286. 
Lightfoot FI. Scot. 186. 
ROOT biennial, of a whitifh colour, tapering, and 
furnifhed with numerous fibres. 
STALK upright, from two to three feet high, round, 
fmooth, fomewhat Hriated, at bottom purple, 
and llightly hoary, at top branched. 
BRANCHES few, alternate, and upright. 
LEAVES alternate, Handing on foot-Halks, heart- 
fhaped, veiny, and fomewhat wrinkled ; the 
lower ones Handing on long foot-flalks, and 
round at the tips ; the upper ones pointed, 
and unequally toothed or fawed. 
FLOWERS white, terminal, upright, Handing on 
flalks 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. Jig- 1. 
COROLLA: four Petals, inverfely oval, and claw- 
ed ; the claw ered 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, Jig. 3, 6: Anthers of an oblong heart 
fliape, yellow, incumbent, and upright, 
fig- 4 » 5 - 
NECTARY, a fmall round fingle gland, placed on 
each fide at the bafe of the longefl Stamina ; 
but the bafe of each of the fhortefi Stamina, 
is wholly furrounded by a glandular fubHance. 
PISTILLUM : the Germen obfcurely four corner’d, 
and oblong, 7 %-. 7 : Style very fhort ,fig. 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,^ - . 9. 
SEEDS numerous, oblong, brown, fhining, finely 
grooved, obliquely cut off at each end, and 
partly buried in the diflepimentum on each 
fide, jig. 10. 
THE whole of this plant, on being rubbed, difcovers a flrong fmell of Garlic, whence its name of Alliaria. 
Medicinally, the leaves are recommended internally, as fudorifics and deobflruents, 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 : Ran Hifi. PI. et Syn. 
The feeds bruifed, and put up the nofirils, are faid to promote fneezing : Rail Hijl. PI. p. 792. 
The Curculio Alliaria, Linn. Faun. Suecic. n. 580, perforates and dwells in the Halks of this plant : FI. Suecic. 
If eaten by Cows, which it appears to be from Linnaeus’s experiments, it will be liable to give a difagreeable 
tafie to the milk ; fhould this happen, the Farmer will eafily deflroy 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 charader of an Eryfimum, wherefore he arranges it as 
a Sijymbrium. 
RADIX biennis, albida, fufiformis, plurimis fibrillis 
inflruda. 
CAULIS eredus, bi aut tripedalis, teres, laevis, fubfiria- 
tus, inferne purpureus, villofus, fuperne ra- 
mofus. 
RAMI pauci, alterni, eredi. 
FOLIA' alterna, petiolata, cordata, venofa, fubrugofa, 
inferiora longius petiolata, rotundata, fuperi- 
ora acuta, inaequaliter dentato-ferrata. 
FLORES nivei, terminales, eredi, pedunculis longi- 
tudine florum infidentes. 
CALYX: Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis oblon- 
gis, pallide virefcentibus, obtufis, deciduis, 
apice interne concavis, externe gibbis, fig. 1. 
COROLLA: Petala quatuor, obovata, unguiculata, 
unguis eredus, linearis, limbus patens, venis 
paucis exaratus, fig. 2. 
STAMINA : Filamenta fex, fubulata, alba, duo bre- 
viora incurvata, quatuor longiora ereda, lon- 
gitudine Styli , fig. 3, 6: Antherae oblongae, 
cordatae, flavae, incumbentes, eredae, fig. 4, 5. 
NECT ARIUM : glandularotundafolitariautrinque ad 
bafin Staminum longiorum, bafis vero Stami- 
num breviorum glandula cingitur. 
PISTILLUM : Germen obfcure tetragonum, oblon- 
gum, fig. 7 : Stylus brevilfimus, fig. 8 : 
Stigma capitato-truncatum. 
PERICARPIUM : Siliqua biuncialis, teres, fubte- 
tragona, lineata, bilocularis, bivalvis, fig. 9. 
SEMINA plurima, oblonga, fufca, nitida, firiata, u- 
traque extremitate oblique truncata, diflepi- 
mento utrinque nidulantia,^. 10. 
