432 HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Asparagus. 
lar, truncated. ( Herb smooth, slender. Petals scarcely half an inch 
long, permanent, as are the stamens. Caps, the size of a pea, mem¬ 
branous. Sm. E.) 
Mountain Spiderwort. Saffron Spiderwort. On high mountains, 
as Snowdon, and those in the neighbourhood of Llanberris on the west 
side of Trigvylchan. Ray. On Crib y Ddescil rocks near Llanberris, in 
inaccessible situations, rare; also on the most inaccessible rocks above 
Lynn Idwal, Carnarvonshire, very near Tull du in the greatest abun¬ 
dance. Hudson. Griffith. P. June. 
NARTHE'CIUM.* Bloss. six petals, spreading: Style almost 
none : Caps, egg-shaped : Seeds attenuated at each end : 
(Stam . villose. E.) 
N. ossif'ragum. 
Picks. II. S. — (E. Bot. 535— Hook. FI Lond. 139. E.)— FI. Pan. 42— 
Clus. i. 198. 1— Pod. 908. 9— Lob. Obs. 47. 1— Ger. Em. 95. 9— J. B. ii. 
633. 9 —H. Ox. iv. 1. I—Pet. 66. 9. 
Stem ascending, cylindrical, four to nine inches high. Root-leaves strap- 
spear-shaped, flat, scored ; crooked stem-leaves lying close to the stem. 
Flower-scales, two to each fruit-stalk, spear-shaped, alternate, concave. 
Petals strap-spear-shaped, a little concave, greatly expanding, greenish 
on the outside, of a full yellow within. Filaments woolly, yellow. An¬ 
thers scarlet. ( Seeds remarkably attenuated at each extremity, yet 
resembling, in their pellucid integument, those of the Orchidece and 
Pyrola. Hook. E.) 
Lancashire Asphodel. (Welsh: Llafn y bladur. Gaelic: Ambliocan. 
N. ossifragum. Huds. With. Sm. Hook. Grev. Anthericum ossifragum. 
Linn. FI. Dan. Lightf. Willd. E.) Asphodelus Lancastriee. Ger. Em. 96. 
n. 9. Turf bogs. Dersingham Moor, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. Bogs in 
the north, very common. Mr. Woodward. Needwood Forest. Birming¬ 
ham Heath (since drained and enclosed). Moreton Moors, three miles 
from Blymhill, Shropshire. Rev. S. Dickenson. Willesboro’ Leas, Kent. 
Mr. Gerard E. Smith. Rubry Hill on the Lickey, Worcestershire. Coles- 
hill Bog. Purton. Abundant on the moors of Scotland. In turbaries, 
Anglesey, Welsh Bot. On Haldon, Devon. E.) P. July—Aug.t 
ASPA'RAGUS.J Bloss. with six deep divisions, upright; the 
tops of the three inner petals reflexed: Berry superior, 
three-celled : ( Stigmas three. E.) 
A. officina'lis. Stem herbaceous, much branched, cylindrical, up¬ 
right, without prickles: leaves bristle-shaped, flexible: leaf- 
scales mostly solitary. 
Kniph. 6— Ludw. 78— FI. Pan. 505— Mill. 55— Sheldr. 83— E. Bot. 339— 
Matth. 477— Fuchs. 68-Trag. 292— J. B. iii. 726. 1— Ger. 949*. 1— 
Blackw. 332— '-Clus. ii. 179— Pod. 703. 1— Lob. Obs. 458— Ger. Em. 1110. 
1— Park. 454. 3— Par. 501. G-—Lonic. 141. 2. 
* (From vxpQrix/Gv, a medical chest; alluding to its once supposed virtues. E.) 
+ This herb is believed in Sweden to be noxious to sheep, and has been imagined to 
soften the bones of animals that feed upon it (whence the trivial name) ; but these an¬ 
cient prejudices have been refuted by Linnaeus, in FI. Lapp. E.) Cows and horses eat it. 
Sheep and swine refuse it. 
t (The term aa7rapayos, was originally applied to all tender shoots of plants. E.) 
