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Kamtchatka, where it is as commonly cultivated as the potato with us. 
Card. Mag. 6. 322. The roots of Erythronium indicum are employed in 
India in cases of strangury and fever in horses. Ainslie, 1. 403. Polianthes 
tuberosa, or the Tuberose, is well known for its delicious fragrance. This 
plant emits its scent most strongly after sunset, and has been observed in a 
sultry evening, after thunder, when the atmosphere was highly charged with 
electric fluid, to dart small sparks, or scintillations of lucid flame, in great 
abundance from such of its flowers as were fading. Ed. P. J. 3. 415. Glo- 
riosa superba is said to be acrid. A bitter stimulant principle, contained in a 
gummy viscid juice, prevails in all, difiering in the species chiefly in regard to 
its quantity and degree of concentration. The bulb of the Scilla maritima is 
nauseous and acrid ; it acts either as an emetic, purgative, or expectorant 
and diuretic, in proportion to the dose in which it is given. Its properties are 
said to be due to a peculiar principle, called. by Vogel, Scillitin. The 
Onion, Garlic, Shallot, Chive, Rocambole, all species of Allium, agree in 
their stimulant, diuretic, and expectorant effects, differing in their degree of 
activity. According to Dr. A. T. Thomson, the virtues of the genus AUium 
depend on an acrid principle, soluble in water, alcohol, acids, and alkalies. 
Conspectus, p. 9. In consequence of the free phosphoric acid which the com- 
mon Onion bulbs contain, they are supposed to be useful in calculous cases. 
Ibid. Aloes act in hke manner as stimulants, to which they owe their remark- 
able cathartic powers. Soccotrine Aloes, so called from being produced in 
Zocotora, are obtained from Aloe spicata. Linn. An inferior sort, sold in the 
East Indian bazars, is supposed to be the produce of Aloe perfoliata. Ainslie, 
1.9. This is the Barbadoes Aloes, or Hepatic Aloes of the shops. The 
root of Dracaena terminalis is considered by the Javanese a valuable medicine 
in dysenteric affections. Ibid. 2. 20. The juice of Dracaena Draco is the 
Gum Dragon, a styptic substance, well known in medicine ; it flows from the 
plants abundantly when cut. The bitter resinous root of Aletris farinosa is 
tonic and stomachic, in small doses ; but a dose of 20 grains occasions much 
nausea, with a tendency to vomit. Bigelow, 3. 96. The bulbs of Scilla 
Lilio-Hyacinthus, and the roots of Anthericum bicolor, are both purgative, 
according to De Candolle, Propr. Med, 296. The juice of common Aspa- 
ragus contains a peculiar principle, called Asparagin. Turner, 699. 
GENERA. 
§ 1. TULlPACCiE, DC. 
Gloriosa, L. 
Methonica, Herm. 
Lilium, Toumef. 
? Amblirion, Raf. 
Rhinopetalum, Fisch. 
Fritillaria, L. 
Petilium, L. 
Imperialis, Juss. 
Eucrinum, Nutt. 
Calochortus, Ph. 
Cyclobothra, Sweet. 
Lloydia, Salisb. 
Rhabdocrinum, 
» Rchb. 
Nectaribothrium, 
Led. 
Gagea, Salisb. 
Ornithoxanthum, 
Link. 
Tulipa, Tourn. 
Erythronium, L. 
Susum, Bl. 
§ 2. HEMEROCALLIDEiE, 
R.Br. 
Hemerocallis, L. 
Funkia, Spr. 
Hosta, Tratt. 
Libertia, Dumort. 
Niobe, Salisb. 
Bryocles, Salisb. 
Saussurea, Salisb. 
Agapanthus, L’Her. 
Mauhlia, Thunb. 
Polianthes, L. 
Blandfordia, Sm. 
Velthejmia, Gleditsch. 
Tritoma, Ker. 
Tritomanthe, Hsgg. 
§ 3. ScillejE, Bartl. 
Alliacece, Link. 
ConantherefP,, Don. 
A 
Allium, L. 
Porrum, Tourn. 
Codonoprasum,Rch.h . 
Ophioscorodon, 
Wallr. 
Hesperoscordum, 
Lindl. 
Calliprora, Lindl. 
? Milla, Cav. 
Ledebouria, Roth. 
Scilla, L. 
Bellevalia, Lap. 
Urginea, Steinh. 
Barnardia, LindL 
Camassia, Lindl. 
Trichopetalum, Lindl. 
Bottionea, Colla. 
Ornithogalum, L. 
Stellaris, Moench. 
Myogalu m, ' Link . 
Albuca, L. 
Uropetalum, Ker. 
Polemannia, Berg. 
Drimia, Jacq. 
Massonia, L. 
Daubenya, Lindl. 
Eucomis, L’Herit. 
Basilcea, Lam. 
* * 
Puschkinia, Adams. 
Adamsia, W. 
Cummingia, Don. 
Conanthera, R. et P. 
Bessera, Schultz. 
Zephyra, Don. 
* «• 
Lachenalia, Jacq. 
Hyacinthus, L. 
Muscari, Desf. 
Triteleia, Lindl. 
Pharium, Herb. 
Brodiaea, Sm. 
Leucocoryne, I^indl. 
