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¶ The Description.
1 THe leaues or the blades of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 be long, somewhat broad, and very many, hauing a keele or crest in the backside, in smell and taste like to the Onion. The stalks, if the blades be not often cut, do in the second or third yeare grow vp round, bringing forth on the top floures made vp in a round head or ball as doth the Onion. The seeds are like. The bulbe or root is long and slender, especially of the vnset Leeke. That of the other Leeke is thicker and greater.
‡ 2 Most Writers distinguish the common Leeke into Porrum capitatum & 〈◊〉〈◊〉; and Lobel giues these two figures wherewith we here present you. Now both these grow of the same seed, and they differ onely in culture; for that which is often cut for the vse of the kitchen is cal∣led Sectivum: the other, which is headed, is not cut, but spared, and remoued in Autumne. ‡