32 POISONOUS PLANTS OF ALL COUNTRIES 

 SCHCENOCAULON OFFICINALE {South America). 56. 



SABADELLA VERATRINA — CEVADILLA. 



Liliacece. — 5 ft. — Leaves all from the bulb; linear; grass- 

 like; keeled; with a strong midrib. — Flowers on spiked 

 raceme; numerous; green, anthers orange. — Fruit a capsule; 

 3 follicles ; J in. — Seeds 2-5 in each follicle ; chocolate. 



Toxic Principles.— YE'RATRJNE, CEVADINE. 



The Sephcdica, budaing with young bees 

 Upreared its purple stem around her knees. 



Poe: '' Al Aaraaf." 



VERATRUM ALBUM. 

 ASAGR^A OFFICINALIS (Alps). 51. 



WHITE-FLOWERED WHITE HELLEBORE — LANG WORT — LYNG 



WORT. 



Liliacece. — Rootstock short; fleshy; black outside; white 

 inside. — 4 ft.; erect; unbranched except at inflorescence. — 

 Leaves alternate; sessile; forming sheaths to stem; longi- 

 tudinally ribbed. — Flowers numerous; sessile. — Fruit of 3 

 follicles. — Seeds 12 to each carpel; pale brown. — perennial; 

 white. {Fatalities.) 



Toxic Principles. — VERATRINE, CEVADINE, VERA- 

 TRONE, JERVINE, also contained in V. nigrum, V. viride. 



As fair as the fabulous asphodels. — Shelley: " The Sensitive Plant.^' 



COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE {British). 58. 



COMMON MEADOW SAFFRON — MEADOW CROCUS — AUTUMN 

 CROCUS — MICH^LMAS CROCUS — PURPLE CROCUS — FOG 

 CROCUS — NAKED LADIES. 



Liliacece. — Leaves erect; broadly lanceolate; withering in 

 summer. — Meadows; 4-8 ins.; perennial; September-Novem- 

 ber; purple. {Fatalities.) 



Toxic Principle. — COLCHICINE, also contained in C. Specio- 

 sum. 



Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused 

 With rains where thick the crocus blows. 



Arnold; Stanzas from the " Grande Chartreuse." 



