SECT. II 



PHANEROGAMIA 



707 



Poisonous. — Numerous Liliaceae are more or less poisonous, c.it. Lily of the 

 Valley, Tulip, FritilJaria, Cokhicion, Vcratrum, Paris. 



Official. — Cokhicum av.tuinncde, seeds and corm ; Sehoenocaulon {Sabadilla) 



a 



Fi(i. 770. — Leucojum aestinnn. 

 a, Inflorescence (reduced) ; t>, 

 gynaeceuni and androecium 

 (nat. .size). 



Fig. 771. — Floral diagram of 

 the Iridaceae (Iris). 



FiK. 772. — Crocus sfitirus. Style with tripartite stigma. 

 Offichl. (After Baillox.) 



officinalis, a bulbous plant with grass -like foliage from mountains of Central 

 America and Venezuela ; the seeds yield veratiunum. Aloe vera. A, chinensis. A. 

 2)erryi, and other species yield aloes barbadexsis and aloes socotrina. Urginca 

 scillae yields squill. Smilax ornata, etc., yield sarsapaeilla. 



