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FICUS ROXBURGHII. 



FICUS D^MONA. 



FICUS TOXICARIA {2hnjore). 



Urticacece. — Young shoots thickly clothed with soft, white 

 hairs. — Leaves opp. ; stalked; oblong and oblong-cuneate ; 

 acute ; sometimes serrate ; above smooth ; below downy and 

 reticulated with soft, hairy veins ; 2i2ins. ; petioles round, with 

 a green gland on each side of base ; stipules within leaves, 

 deciduous. — Flowers (male) monandrous. — Fruit (hypantho- 

 dium) yellow-green, size of a large nutmeg ; obovate ; very 

 hairy ; umbilicus closed by cordate, imbricate scales ; growing 

 [a) usually in pairs, in radical, withering racemes, which are 

 frequently of great length, apices penetrating the ground, or (1^) 

 entire raceme and fruit underground, or (^r) growing from trunk 

 and branches. — Stem contains a milky sap. 



DIGITALIS PURPUREA (British). 



COMMON FOX-GLOVE.— THROAT WORT.— BLOODY FINGER.— 



DEAD MEN'S BELLS.— FAIRY FINGERS. — FINGER FLOWER. — 



FLAP DOCK.— LUSMORIC. 



ScropliulariacecB. — Leaves ovate-lanceolate ; rugijed ; crena- 

 ted ; downy. — Woods and hedge-banks. Common in hilly 

 districts, a-jft. Biehn. —June and July. — Crimson, speckled 

 within. Rarely white. 



Toxic principie.—DIGlT&hl^, also contained in D. lutea. 



URGINEA SCILLA (Cape, Mediterranean coast). 



MEDICINAL SQUILL.— SEA ONION. 



Liliacece. — Rootstock covered with scales forming a bulb ; 

 6in. ; globular. — Leaves from base of flowering stem ; appearing 

 long after flowers ; l^-2ft. — Flowers numerous ; on long 

 pedicels, in erect raceme, ilt. ; rachis l^tt. — Fruit 3 lobed ; 

 yellow. — Seeds 6 in each cell ; Jin. ; flattened ; chocolate. — 

 Perenn. — May and June ; greenish. 



Toxic principles .--%^\\AAXQyA}A, SCILLMN, also contained 

 in U. altissima, Scilla indica, Agrapanthus umbellatus, Crinum 

 asiaticum. 



