LILIALS, 54 MELANTHS. 
Cotcnicum. Linneeus. 
Sepals and petals united into a subterranean tube; the limb balloon-shaped, 
funnel-shaped when expanded. 
1. ©. autumnale Linneus.—(Meapow Sarrroy.) Fig. 89. 
Leaves broad ; tube of flower five or six times as long as the limb ; styles 
thickened and curved at the point, as long as the stamens or longer. 
_ Habitat. Meadows in England, and other parts of Europe. 
Quality. An acrid poison. In small doses, emetic and purgative. 
Uses. Gout, lumbago, rheumatism, inflammatory diseases, humoral asthma, ¥ 
Asacrma. Lindley. 
Flowers racemose, naked. Sepals and petals narrow, coloured, with 
honey-spot at the base. Stamens perigynous, alternately short 
anthers bursting vertically. Follicles 3, acuminate, papery + 
winged. : . 
Fig. 89.— Colchicum autumnale; a, corm ; b, capsule; c, seed much magnified. — 
