NARCISSALS. 4 1 AMARYLLIDS. 
- 1. A. sativa Lindley.—(The Prve-app.e.) 
_ Leaves glaucous, mealy ; bracts shorter than the fruits. 
Habitat, Tropical America only. Introduced elsewhere. 
Quality. Fruit subacrid ; sweet, and pleasantly acid. 
@ Uses. A well-known esculent fruit. 
Natural Order, Amarpllits ; Amaryllidacee (V. K., p. 155.) 
Prevailing Quality. Emetic, narcotic, poisonous. 
Levcorum. Linneus. 
Sepals and Petals distinct to base, all thickened at the point, Coronet 0. 
Stamens equal. 
1. L. estivewm Linneus.—(Snow-ruake.) Fig. 74. 
Spathe many-flowered, style clavate; ovary some- 
what globose ; leaves long, linear, equal to the 
fistular scape. 
Habitat. Various parts of Europe. 
Narcissus. Linneeus. 
Sepals and Petals united in a tube surmounted by a 
coronet. 
LN. Pseudo Narcissus Linneus. . 
—(Darropm.) 
Flowers solitary ; coronet campanu- 
late, erect, crisp, as long as the 
yellow perianth. 
_ Habitat. Thickets and grassy places all 
= over Europe, 
Quality. Acrid, poisonous. 
_ Uses. As an emetic. 
2. N. Tazzetta Linneus.—(ITaniay, 
E or Potyantuus Narcissvs.) 
Flowers umbellate ; coronet campa- : 
nulate, plaited, truncate, 3 times as short as the white perianth. 
2 Habitat. North of Africa and south of Europe. 
= Quality and Uses. As the last. 
i Agave. Linneus. 
— Caulescent. Flowers funnel-shaped, persistent, with erect or revolute lobes. 
: oe coriaceous, loculicidal. Seeds 00, flat. 
,, A. americana Linnseus.—({AMERICAN ALOE.) 
Leaves very large, stiff, perennial, spiny at the edge ; scape lofty, branched ; 
_____ Stamens longer than the perianth. 
“te Tropical America ; introduced elsewhere. 
e - Diuretic, antisyphilitic, detersive. ; i ee. 
U se. Rootsa substitute tor Sarsaparilla, with which they are mixed sometimes. Juice 
of leaves a substitute for soap. Sap of flowering branches sweet, subacid, readily = 
ts and forms a wine called Maguay, or Pulque. te 
Fig. 74.—Leucoium zstivum ; a, the ripe fruit. 
