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XCVI. KESTIACE^. 4o7 



teg, t/)z7A parallel nerves. — Strongly narcotic, diuretic, and 

 cathartic. Veratrine is extracted from Veratrum Sabadilla. 



1. CoLCHicUM. Perianth tubular, very long; limb 6-partite. Styles 



long. 



2. ToFiELDiA. Perianth 6-partite. Styles short, 



\i L CoLCHicuM Liiin. Meadow-Saffron. 



ijov;' Perianth tubular, very long, rising from a spatha ; limb cam- 



''/oniU panulate, 6-partite, petaloid* Caps. 3-celled ; cells united at 



the base. — learned from Colchis, where it was said to grow 



abundantly. 



1. C. autumndle L, (common M.) ; leaves plane broadly lan- 

 ceolate erect. E, B. t, 133. Var. with late green abortive 

 flowers. E.B.i. 1432. 



Meadows and pastures, chiefly in the north-west of England: Ray, 

 fori In Suffolk, Oxfofdshirei Staffordshire, Cheshire, and other places. 

 fe: Alloa, Scotland. li/.. 8 — 10. — The flowers appear in succession, 

 ' rising from the connus, with a very long narrow tube, surrounded 

 I at the base with a membranous sheath. The stamens are inserted 

 ^ on the oblong-ovate segmeyits of the pale purple periantlu Gennen 

 at the base of the cormus, the long thread-like styles running up the 

 whole length of the tube. The leaves and fruit appear in spring and 

 H ^M are withered before summer. Its properties are said to be similar to 

 }ftkj those of the officinal Squill, and it has been employed ns a substitute 



for the famous Eau medicinale. 



2. ToriELDiA Iluds. Scottish Asphodel. 



? I Peinanth 6-partite, having a small 3 -partite involucre. Sfa^ 



mens glabrous. Caps. 3 — 6-celled; cells united at the base, 



of*' niany-seeded. 

 $H botanist. 



Mr. Tofi. 



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(Mountain 



hrous filiform nearly leafless, petals obovate obtuse, germen 

 3"lobed, involucre at the base of the pedicel. E. B. t. 536. 

 T. borealis Wahl. Anthericum calyculatum Z. 



Mountains of England, Scotland, and Ireland, In boggy places ; 



311"' i not rare, %, 7—8 Stem 4 — 6 inches high. Leaves almost wholly 



•e^^' radical, in fascicles, linear, sword-shaped, equitant. Flowers small, 



^#^ pale yellowish -white. 



s^f; ' Ord. XCVL RESTIACEM R.Brown. 



Flowers capitate or spiked, bracteated, glumaceous, or white 

 or colourless, 2— 6-partite, seldom 0. Stamens hypogynous, 





