LILIALS. 56 LILYWORTS. 
Leaves grassy, green, rough at the edge; scape 4 or 5 feet long ; raceme 
very dense: flowers white. 
Habitat, Cool uplands of Mexico. 
Quality. Like Veratrum, but more acrid. , 
Uses. Seeds anthelmintic ; against pediculi; dangerous, A source of veratria. 
Srenantuium. A. Gray. 
Flowers panicled with leafy bracts. Sepals and petals adherent to the — 
ovary at their base, campanulate, non-nectariferous. Stamens perigy- 
nous; anthers reniform, opening at the back. Follicles 3, acuminate, — 
papery ; seeds winged. — 4 
1. 8. frigidum Kunth. Helonias frigida Schlecht.—(Szvorsa.) Fig. 91. — 
Leaves linear, channelled, keeled ; panicle simple ; flowers large, dark 
purple, nodding, hermaphrodite. : 
Habitat. Cool uplands of Mexico. 
Quality. Acrid, poisonous. 
Uses, As Asagreea. 
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Natural Order, Lilywarts; Liliacew (V. K., p. 200.) 
Prevailing Quality. Subacrid, or insipid. 
Auuium. Linneeus. 
Bulbous. Flowers umbellate, inclosed within a spathe. Sepals and petals 
spreading, having the stamens inserted in their base. Fruit a capsul 
Seeds angular. : 
1. A. sativum Linneus.—(GaARticK.) 
Umbel bulbiferous ; leaves obscurely keeled ; spathe 1-valved, deciduous 
bulbs compound, covered by a loose white skin. 
Habitat. Sicily. 
Quality. A local irritant ; tonic, stimulant, diuretic. : 
Uses. As a condiment in cookery ; chronic catarrh, dyspepsy ; as a liniment 
hooping cough, infantile convulsions, &c. 
2. A. Scorodoprasum Linnzeus.—(RocaMBote.) | 
Umbel bulbiferous, few-flowered ; leaf-sheaths 2-edged ; spathe 2-valved, 
mucronate, permanent ; lobes of the flowers ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
long as the stamens ; bulbs simple. 
Habitat, South of E 
Quality. Stimulant, Meet, 
Uses. In cookery, as a stimulating flavouring ingredient. 
3. A. Porrum Linneus.—(Lrex.) 
Umbel not bulbiferous ; stem leafy ; spathe l-valved, deciduous ; lobes 0 
the flower oblong, obtuse, about as long as the stamens ; bulb si 
soft, being a mere continuation of the stem. 
_ Habitat. South of Europe. 
a Quality, &c. As in the last, but much more mild, 
