

HEXANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Colctiicum. 



353 



e seed- 



unequal 



C. Leaves flat, spear-shaped, upright. 



Stoerck.-Fucbs. 356. Z57~Wood<v. 177-E. hot. \3Z~Trag. 

 759-J. B. ii, 6l9~BIack<w. $66-Knlpb. 12-Dod. 4tj0. 2 

 -Ger m em. 15/. l-Ger.em. 157. 2-Pet. 67. 2-Tourn. 181* 

 182-//. ox. iv. 3. l-Ger. 127. 1 and 2. 



Flowers in September, produces its fruits in the following 

 spring, and ripens it in summer. Linn. In the spring several 

 spear-shaped leaves arise, with generally 1 or 2 as long as the 

 rest, but only { as wide, being a kind o{Jo<wer-lea<ves to th 

 vessel. Capsule large, somewhat egg-shaped, with 3 very blunt 



Woodward. Bloss. tube 3-cornered ; segments rather 

 Styles reaching down to the root. Germen at the root 

 surrounded by the rudiments of the future leaves. It lies buried 

 all winter within the root; in spring it grows up on a fruit-stalk, 

 and ripens about the time of hay harvest. May not the very- 

 great length of the styles account in some measure for the delay 

 in the ripening of the seeds ? As this plant blossoms late in the 

 year, and probably would not have time to ripen its seeds before 

 the access of winter, which would destroy them, Providence has 

 Contrived its structure such, that this important office may be 

 performed at a depth in the earth, out of reach of the usual effects 

 of frost, as seeds buried at such a depth, are known not to vege- 

 tate. A no less admirable provision is made to raise them above 

 the surface when they are perfected, and to sow them at a proper 

 season. Bloss. pale purple. 



Meadow Saffron, or Tuberoot. Meadows, low as well as 

 mountainous, in rich soil in the west and north of England. 

 [Near Bury. Mr. Woodward. — Derby. Mr. Whately. — In 

 orchards on the borders of Malvern Chace, Worcestershire. Mr. 

 Ballard. — On the meadows bordering the Severn, Worcester- 

 shire. St. — Wellington and Hales Owen, Shropshire. In the 

 nieadow between the church and the medicinal spring at Chel- 



autumnale. 



] 



P. Aug. Sept.* 



Var. 2. Blossom divisions very large, green, and leaf-like ; 



stamens imperfect. 



Mr. Sal 



Wiltshire 



who observed it growing thu* 



* This is one of those plants which upon the concurrent tettimony of 

 *?es was condemned as poisonous ; but Dr. Storck, of Vienna, hath taught 

 u * that it is a useful medicine. The roots have a good deal of acrimony, 

 An infusion of them in vinegar, formed into a syrup, by the addition of 

 su £*r or honey, is found to be a very useful pectoral and diuretic. It 

 se erns in its virtues very much to resemble Squill, but is less nauseous 

 and less acrimonious, though more sedative. 



In a pasture in which were several horses, and eaten down pretty bare* 

 ™« grass was closely cropped even under the leaves, but not a leaf bitten, 



m. Woodward, 



Vol, II. 



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