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E R Y S I M U M Alliaria.
G arlick Hedge-mujîard.
TETRAD YNA MI A Siliquefa.
G en. Char. Pod ftraight, columnar, exaélly fquare.
Cal. clofed. Stigma blunt.
Spec. Char. Leaves beart-fhaped.
Syn. Eryfimum Alliaria. Linn. Sp. PI. 922. Sm. Fl.
P rit. 708. Hudf. 286. With. 584. Hull. 146.
Relh. 25 t . Stbth. 201. Abbot. 144. Curt. Lond.
fafc. 2. t. 48. Woodv. Suppl, t. 245.
Hefperis Allium redolens.’ Raü Syn. 293.
V e r y common under hedges and in other fhady places,
where it flowers in May. As the fummer advances the leaves
turn yellow, and the plant foon dies, fowing its feeds in
abundance. The young plants which fpring up from them in
autumn generally flower the next feafon, fo that the root is more
properly annual than biennial.
The ftem is upright, about a foot or more in height, leafy,
a little branched in the upper part. Leaves alternate, on foot-
ftalks, heart-fhaped, broad, toothed, veiny, of a deep Alining
green, and very fmooth. Flowers fmall, with white entire
petals, and the calyx alfo is whitifti at the bafe. A notched gland
embraces the bafe of each of the {hotter ftamina, and a fmaller
entire one ftands without fide of the longer ftamina. Pods
ere£t, long, quadrangular, which laft is the moil certain
chara&er of Eryjimum, and obliges us to overlook the calyx,
whofe leaves do not ftand fo clofe together as the generic de-
fcription requires.
When bruifed this whole herb has a ftrong fmell, which
feems as it were the quintefience of the peculiar acrid flavour
common to the crueiform plants, heightened into that of garlic.
Hence it has acquired the name of Sauce alone, and Ray tells
us the country people eat it with bread and butter. It is certainly
the cheapeft article of the three.