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Crow Garlic. (Welsh : Crafgwyllt. E.) Meadows and pastures. Near 
Norwich. Mr. Crowe. Huntingdonshire and Derbyshire. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward. (Corn-fields near Chudleigh. Rev. J. P. Jones. In corn-fields 
about Stockwood, Keynsham, and Queen’s Charlton, Somerset. Mr. F. 
Russell. Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Salisbury Craigs, and Craig-Lockhart. 
Grev. Edin. E.) P. June—July.* 
Var. 2. With a double head of bulbs. 
Lob. Obs. 78. 2— Park. 871. f. 3— H. Ox. iv. 14. 
Near Worcester. Stokes. (In the valley, Wick Grounds, Brislington, So¬ 
mersetshire. E.) 
A. olera'ceum. Filaments undivided: leaves semi-cylindrical, grooved 
above, roughish, furrowed beneath: (sheath with two very long 
points. E.) 
{E. Bot. 488. E.— Hall, de All. 1. 2. in Opusc. p. 386— Clus. i. 194. 1— Ger. 
Em. 188. 6—H. Ox. iv. 14. 2— J. B. ii. 561.1. 
Root a solid bulb. Stem two or three feet high, upright, or only a little 
bent towards the top, smooth, not striated, solid. Leaves hollow. Bulbs 
egg-shaped, forming a roundish knob ; from between these arise several 
thread-shaped fruit-stalks, each supporting a single flower, which is 
drooping, cylindrical, but somewhat bell-shaped. Blossom whitish 
green, with three dark purple streaks on each petal. Very minute white 
dots, hardly visible to the naked eye, are scattered over the whole plant. 
Linn. Leaves and leaf-stalks deeply furrowed. Bulbs numerous. Fruit- 
stalks , some upright. Blossom pale, with purple lines. Germen prism¬ 
shaped, hexangular. Style slender, longer than the blossom. The leaves 
can hardly be called rough. Woodw. Stamens shorter than the petals. 
( Germen rough at the apex. E.) 
Wild Garlic. (Streaked Field Garlic. (Irish: Gairleog Muire. E.) 
Meadows, pastures, and amongst corn. Baydales, near Darlington. 
Mr. Robson. (Borders of Derwentwater. Mr. Dawson Turner. In afield 
at Fincham, Norfolk. Rev. R. Forby. Banks of the Tyne, below Wy- 
lam. Mr. Winch. In a field by Rosall, Warwickshire. Purton. Near 
St. David’s. Mr. J. Stewart. Grev. Edin. E.) Common about Rippon, 
and other parts of Yorkshire. P. July.f 
(4) Leaves from the root ; stalk naked. 
A. ursPnum. Stalk triangular: leaves spear-shaped, on leaf-stalks: 
umbel flat topped. 
Dicks. H. S.—E. Bot. 122— FI. Dan. 757—Fuchs. 739 —J. B. ii. 566. 1— 
Trag. 748. 2- Wale — Matth. 560—Dod. 683. 2—Lob. Obs. 80. 2— 
Ger. Em. 179. 2—Ger. 141. 2—Pet. 668— -H. Ox. iv. 15.15. 
( Leaves only one or two, a span long, erect, broad, smooth, ribbed, and re¬ 
ticulated. E.) Flowers large, numerous, white. Bulb oblong, tapering. 
Sheath egg-shaped, shorter than the fruit-stalks. Petals egg-shaped, ex- 
* The young shoots are eaten in salads, or boiled as a pot-herb. (Garlic-tasted butter 
is extremely unwholesome, producing painful eructations, and disordering the stomach. 
Barton. E.) 
+ The tender leaves are very commonly boiled in soups, or fried with other herbs. Cows, 
goats, sheep, and swine eat it. (The smell of Garlic is so inimical to moles, that, to get 
rid of them, it is sufficient to introduce a few heads of this plant into their subterraneous 
walks. Month. Mag. E.) 
