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P L A T E CVII.
A L L I U M G R A C I L E.
Sweet-fcented Garlic.
C L A S S VL ORDER L
HEXJNDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Six Chives. One Pointal.
G E N E R I C CHAUACTEE.
CALYX. Spatha communis, fubrotunda, marcefceiis,
multiflora.
COROLLA. Petala fex, oblonga.
STAMINA. Filamenta fex, fubulata, longitudine
fsepe corollae. Antherae oblongae, ereftae.
PisTiLLUM. Germen fuperum, breve, fubtrigonum,
angulis linea infculptis. Stylus
fimplex. t-tigraa acutum.
PERIGAKPIUM. Capfula breviffima, lata, triloba,
trilocularis, trivalvis.
SEMINA pauca, fubrotunda.
EMPALEMENT. Spath common, roundifli, withering,
inclofing many flowers.
BLOSSOM. Petals fix, oblong.
CHIVES. Six threads, awl-fliaped, often the
length of the bloflbm. Tips oblong, up.
right.
PoiNTAL. Seed-bud above, ihort, nearly threefided,
the angles marked by a line. Shaft
fimple. Summit pointed.
SEED-VESSEL. Capfule very fliort, broad, of three
lobes, three cells, and three valves.
SEEDS a few, roundiih.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
Allium fcapo nudo, tereti, longilTimo; foliis canaliculatis,
linearibusj umbella multiflora:
corollis albidisj ftaminibus fubulatis, ad
bafin cum petalis definentibus in tubum.
Garlic with a naked flower-ftem, cylindrical, and
very long; leaves channelled, and linearj
uinbel many flowered; bloflbms white;
chives awl-lhaped, terminating with the
petals at the bafe in a tube.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. The EloiTom cut open.
2. One Petal of tlie Bloflbm and its Chive, magnified.
3. The Pointal and Seed-bud.
4. A Capfule with ripe Seeds.
F R OM a plant in the colleaion of J. Vere, Efq. Kenfington Gore, our drawing was made, this year
early in the month of May; and from an accurate fcrutiny, are inclined to think it might be conlidered
as a new genus; for certainly it does not well affine to the one here affigned it, in fevcral
inftances; but as our profeiTed principles are, as rarely as poffible, to increafe the number of genera,
we have retained it under Allium. The flowers of this plant are fragrant in the extreme, at night;
fo much fo, that one is fufficient to fcent a large room; the flavour fomething like the Heliotrope'.
Being a native of Barbadoes, from whence it was fent by Mr. J. Ellcock in 1791, to Meflrs. Lee and
Kennedy, Hammerfmith, it requires the heat of a hothoufe, where, without the affiftance of the bark
bedj it will flower, and increafe from the bulb abundantly.
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