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of Italy, Spain,' Africa, and the Levant. 
May, and was cultivated in 1596 by Gerard. 
7. Allium-magicum, or Homer’s garlic or moly: da- 
mens fimple, branches bulb-bearing. This fpecies is pre- 
ferved by many perfons in the gardens for the fake of va¬ 
riety, but it has a very drong fcent. 
8. Allium obliquum, or oblique-leaved garlic : damens 
filiform, thrice as long as the flower, leaves oblique. Na¬ 
tive of Siberia. 
9. Allium ramofum, or branched garlic: umbel glo- 
bofe, damens awl-fliaped longer, leaves linear, fubconvex. 
This and the former grow naturally in Siberia, whence 
their feeds were fent to Peterdmrgh, and from them the 
botanic gardens have been fupplied; but they are only 
preferved for the fake of variety. 
10. Allium rofeum, or rofe garlic: umbel flat topped, 
petals emarginate, damens very diort, Ample. It grows 
naturally about Montpelier, and in Piedmont, in the fields, 
olive-grounds, and vineyards. 
11. Allium Tartaricum, or Tartarian garlic : umbel 
flat, damens Ample, leaves femicylindrical. Native of 
Siberia. 
II. Stem-leaves flat; umbel bulb-bearing. 12. Allium 
fativum, or common garlic : bulb compound, damens 
three-cufped.. Garlic is faid to be found wild in the ifland 
of Sicily. It has many bulbs, commonly called cloves,'in- 
veded with a w hite fkin; the leaves are linear, long, and 
narrow', like thofe of grafs. Cultivated in 1551; and 
probably much earlier. 
13. Allium fcorodoprafum, or rochambole: damens 
three-cufped, leaves crenulate, fheaths two-edged. Ro¬ 
chambole is found w ild in Sweden, Denmark, and Hunga¬ 
ry. This has compound bulbs, but the cloves are fmaller 
than thofe of garlic. 
14. Allium arenarium, or fand garlic: damens three- 
cufped, fheaths columnar, fpathe awnlefs. It grows wild 
in Thuringia, Scania, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, and 
Wedmoreland. 
15. Allium carinatum, or mountain garlic : damens d\vl- 
lhaped, fpathe very long. It is found w'ild in Scania, 
Germany, Italy, and Switzerland; alfo in Wedmoreland ; 
about Ramfgate, in the ifle of Thanet; and between Sand¬ 
wich and Deal. 
III. Stem-leaves columnar; umbel capfule-bearing. 
16. Allium fphserocephalon, or fmall round-headed gar¬ 
lic : damens three-cufped, longer than tire corolla, leaves 
femicolumnar. Native of Italy, Germany, Switzerland, 
and Siberia. Haller thinks that the eighteenth is not fpe- 
cifically diflinff from this. 
17. Allium parviflorum, or fmall-flowered garlic : um¬ 
bel globofej. damens Ample, longer than the corolla, fpathe 
awl-draped. Liiqp the former, except in having Ample 
filaments. It is a native of the fouth of Europe. 
18. Allium defcendens, or purple-headed garlic: da¬ 
mens three-cufped, outer peduncles fhorter. Native of 
Italy and Switzerland. 
19. Allium mofchatum, or mufk-fmelling garlic : um¬ 
bel flat-topped, modly Ax-flowered, petals acute, damens 
Ample, leaves fetaceous. It grows wild in Provence, Nar- 
bonne, and Spain. Cafp. Bauhin relates, that Saltzmann 
brought him the plant from the hills about Montpelier 
in 1598, and that he cultivated it in his garden. 
20. Allium fiavurn, or fulphur-coloured garlic : flow¬ 
ers pendulous,-petals ovate, damens longer than the corol¬ 
la. Gouan and Gerard think this to be a variety of the 
lad. It is a native of the fouth of France, Italy, and 
Aufiria. 
21. Allium pallens, or pale-flowered garlic: flowers 
pendulous, truncated ; damens Ample, equalling the co¬ 
rolla. Native of Italy, Spain, Montpelier, and Hungary. 
Introduced in 1779, by Abbe Poiret. 
22. Allium paniculatum, or panicled garlic: peduncles 
capillary, fpread out; damens awl-fliaped, fpa*(he very 
long. The leaves are aw'l-diaped and channelled ; and it 
a a native of Italy, Aufiria, Switzerland, Caraiola, Sibe¬ 
ria, and the Levant. Gerard joins this with the forego 
ing. 
23. Allium vineale, or crow garlic : damens three-cufp¬ 
ed. This is a native of Germany, Switzerland, Italy, &c. 
With us it is frequent in padures, and communicates its 
rank fade to the milk and butter. In other countries it 
grows alfo among the corn, and in vineyards. 
24. Allium oleraceum, or purple-driped garlic : damens 
Ample; leaves rough, femicolumnar; furrowed under¬ 
neath. Native of Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Italy; 
and with us in Wedmoreland, and Yorkfliire; near,Brif- 
tol; and in Effex, nearNotley, among corn. 
25. Allium Pallafii, or Pallas’s garlic : umbel difform, 
damens dimple, equalling the corolla; dyle very diort,. 
The leaves are fhorter than the dem, and alternate. 
IV. Leaves radical, dem naked. 26. Allium nutans, or 
flat-fialked garlic: fcape two-edged, leaves linear flat, 
damens three-cufped. It varies fo much in diderent ages 
and foils as fcarcely to be known. The cufps of the da¬ 
mens are obliterated in old plants. A native.of Siberia. 
27. Allium afcalonicum, or fhallot or efchallote: fcape 
columnar, leaves awl-diaped, umbel globofe, damens 
three-cufped. Haffelquid found the efchalotte native in 
Paledine, and it was cultivated here in 1633. 
28. Allium fenefcens, or narcifllis-leaved onion or gar¬ 
lic: fcape two-edged, leaves linear, convex beneath, 
fmooth, umbel roundifli, damens awl-fliaped. This fpe¬ 
cies is a native of Siberia, the Alps, Silefia, and the ifland 
of Sicily. 
29. Allium odorum, or fweet-fmelling garlic: fcape 
nearly columnar, leaves linear, channelled, angular be¬ 
neath, umbel flat-topped. Is a native of the fouth of 
Europe, China, Japan, &c. 
30. Allium inodorum, or Carolina garlic: fcape naked 
fubtriquetrous, leaves linear flat keeled beneath, umbel 
fadigiate floriferous, damens Ample. Native of Carolina. 
It was introduced in 1776, by the duchefs dowager of Port¬ 
land, and it flowers in March and April. 
31. Allium angulofum, or angular-fcaped garlic : fcape 
two-edged, leaves linear-channelled, fomewhat angular 
beneath, umbel flat-topped. Allioni can fcarcely find any 
certain difference between the twenty-eighth and this, 
which is found in meadows, whereas that grows on rocks ; 
the flow ers alfo are larger, the plant is higher, and the 
leaves are not flexuofe. Native of Siberia, Italy, Aufiria, 
Switzerland, and Germany, in moifl places. 
32. Allium nigrum, or black garlic: fcape columnar, 
leaves linear, umbel hemifpherical, petals eredt, fpathe 
pointed, bifid. Refembles No. 28, but is twice the fize ; 
has the leaves of narciffus. It is a native of Provence, 
Italy, Audria, and the neighbourhood of Algiers. 
33. Allium Canadenfe, or Canada tree-onion : fcape co¬ 
lumnar, leaves linear, head bulb-bearing. Native of 
North America. 
34. Allium urfmum, or ramfons: fcape three-fided, 
leaves lanceolate, petiolate, umbel flat-topped. Native of 
Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, in woods 
and moifl fliady places; and in England is not uncommon. 
35. Allium triquetrum, or three-cornered moly: fcape 
and leaves three-lided, damens firnple. A native of Italy 
and Spain. 
36. Allium cepa, or common onion: fcape dwelling out 
below, and longer than the columnar leaves. The com¬ 
mon onion is too well known, by its fidular leaves and 
fwelling flalks, to need a particular defcription. The La¬ 
tin name cepa is derived from caput, a head, on account of 
the form of its bulb; for the fame reafon, the Greeks 
called it xpo ^vov. Our En°;lifli and French names are 
from the Latin unio\ becaule the bulb never throws out 
any offsets. The varieties of the common onion are—tire 
Strafburgh, or common oval; the Spanifli, diver-Ikinned, 
and red-fkinned; the Portugal great oval onion; and the 
Tripoli. All thele vary from feeds, and there are feveral 
intermediate differences which are not worth enumerating. 
The virtues of this genus are condderable. The common 
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