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clear weather about eijjht in the morn- 

 ing, so that the damp may disperse be- 

 fore the raysofthe sun fall directly up- 

 on the plants." — Card. Cliron. 



A. Long/flora. " Tlie bulbs of this 

 may be started in a warm cucumber 

 frame towards the end of P'ebruary. 

 Each plant, when it has formed a few 

 leaves, should then be potted off, sepa- 

 rately, into small pots, or, preferably, 

 several may be planted together in a 

 shallow box. The temperature of a 

 warm green-house suits them admira- 

 bly." — Card. Chron. 



ACHYRONIA villosa. Green-house 

 evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Peat and 

 loam. 



ACIANTHUS. Three species. Tu- 

 berous green-house plants. Division. 

 Loam and peat. 



ACICARPHA spatidata. Herba- 

 ceous stove perennial. Division. Loam 

 and peat. 



ACIOTIS. Two species. Stove 

 evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Peat and 

 loam. 



ACIS. Four species. Hardy bulbs. 

 Offsets. Sandy loam. 



ACISANTHERA quadrata. Stove 

 evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Peat and 

 loam. 



ACMADENIA tetragona. Green- 

 house evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Loam 

 and peat. 



ACMENA Jloribi^nda. Green-house 

 evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Sandy 

 loam. 



ACONITUM. Eighty species hardy 

 deciduous tubers; and thirty-four spe- 

 cies hardy herbaceous perennials. " A. 

 Napellus, from napus, a turnip, its gru- 

 mous roots resembling little turnips, is 

 n well known poisonous plant. Lin- 

 naaus says, that it is fatal to kine and 

 goats, especially when they come fresh 

 to it, and are not acquainted with the 

 plant; but that it does no injury to 

 horses, who eat it only when dry. He 

 also relates (from the Stockholm Acts) 

 that an ignorant surgeon prescribed the I radicle and plumule, the infant root and 



root is unquestionably the most power- 

 ful partofthe plant. Matthiolus relates, 

 that a criminal was put to death by 

 taking one drachm of it. Dodonseus 

 gives us an instance, recent in his time, 

 of five persons at Antwerp, who ate the 

 root by mistake, and ail died. Dr, 

 Turner also mentions, that some French- 

 men at the same place, eating the 

 shoots of this plant for those of master- 

 wort, all died in the course of two days, 

 e.xcept two players, who quickly evacu- 

 ated all that they had taken by vomit. 

 We have an account, in the Philosophi- 

 cal Transactions, of a man who was 

 poisoned, in the year 1732, by eating 

 some of this plant in a salad, instead of 

 celery. Dr. Willis also, in his work De 

 Anima Brutorum, gives an instance of a 

 man who died in a few hours, by eating 

 the tender leaves of this plant also in 

 a salad. He was seized with all the 

 symptoms of mania. Tlie Aconite, 

 thus invested with terrors, has, how- 

 ever, been so far subdued, as to become 

 a powerful remedy in some of the most 

 troublesome disorders incident to the 

 human frame. Baron Stoerck led the 

 way by administering it in violent pains 

 of the side and joints, in glandulous 

 scirrhi, tumours, ulcerous tubercles of 

 the breast, &c., to the quantity of from 

 ten to thirty grains in a dose, of an ex- 

 tract, the method of making which he 

 describes." — Encyc. Plants. Division. 

 Common garden soil. All are poison- 

 ous. 



ACRO'N Y CHI A cunningh ami. Green- 

 house shrub. Cuttings. Sandy loam 

 and peat. 



ACROPERA loddigesii. Stove epi- 

 phyte. Division. Peat and potsherds. 



ACROPHYLLUM verticillatum. 

 Green-house shrub. Cuttings. Loam 

 and pent. 



ACROSPIRE is the name whereby 

 malsters, gardeners, and others describe 

 the sprouts from barley and other seeds 

 when germinating, and which are the 



leaves, and on the patient refusing to 



take them, he took them himself and 



died. The ancients, who were ac 



quainted with chemical poisons, regard 



ed the Aconite as the most violent ofi house plants. Division and seed 



all poisons. Some persons, only by j and peat. 



taking in the effluvia of the herb in full I ACROTRICHE. Threes 



flower by the nostrils, have been seized Green-house evergreen shrubs. 



with swooning fits, and have lost their | tings. Sandy peat. 



eight for two or three days. Cut the 



stem. 



ACROSTICHUM. Sixteen species. 

 Chiefly stove herbaceous perennials. 

 A. alcicorne and A. grande are green- 

 Loam 



ACTINOMERIS. Four species. 



