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reg. 235 Eng. bot. 130 4709 4712 4718 History, Use, Propagation, Culture, the Latins. A genus of little beauty, but of easy management in sandy loam and decayed vegetable soil, and propagation is effected by suckers from the old bulbs; or by taking off leaves with a scale, and planting them round the edge of a pot of sandy loam. 798. Xanthorrhea. From ξavθoς, yellow, and ῥεω, to flow. The plant produces a yellow gum. 799. Thysanotus. From θuσavoς, a fringe, on account of the fringe of the sepals. Elegant little New Holland plants, with bright purple blossoms and slender grassy leaves. plants, with bright purple blossoms and slender grassy leaves. 800. Eriospermum. From ερiov, wool, and σπερμη, seed, on account of the envelope of the seed. Very curious little Cape plants, with deformed or unusually shapen leaves. little Cape plants, with deformed or unusually shapen leaves. 801. Gagea. Named by R. A. Salisbury, Esq., after his friend Sir Thomas Gage, a great amateur of botany. A genus of curious little bulbous plants, none of which exceed the height of more botany. A genus of curious little bulbous plants , none of which exceed the height of more than three or four inches, and principally distinguished from Ornithogalum by the yellow color of their flowers.
ORDER I.
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 4694 Inner sepals glandular at end inflexed, Scape erect, Fl. nodding, Lvs. linear subulate channelled smooth 4695 Inner sepals glandular at end inflexed, Peduncles spreading at right angles, Lvs. lanc. lin. obliquely bent 4696 Inner sepals glandular at end infl. Scape erect wavy, Fl. cernuous, Lvs. lin. subul. chann. outside hairy 4697 Inner sepals vaulted at end, Leaves smooth, Peduncles the length of bractes §2. Six stamens fertile. 4698 Inner sepals vaulted at end, Leaves lin. flattish, Scape shorter than leaves, Pedunc. very long spreading 4699 Inner sepals glandular at end inflexed, Leaves lin. lanc. convol, upright shorter than scape 4700 Inner sepals glandular at end reflexed, Leaves lin. lanc. flattish, Pedunc. at right angles, Flowers erect 4701 Scape shorter than leaves few-flowered, Flowers nodding, Filam. 2-toothed 4702 Leaves lanceolate, Raceme pyramidal before the leaves, Filam. glandular at base 4703 Leaves lin. subulate channelled, Scape simple shorter than leaves, Scales of root wrinkled across 4704 Inner sepals glandular at end inflexed, Lvs. lin. lanc. flat, Pedunc. very long erect spreading, Fl. upright Fl. upright 4705 Inner sepals vaulted at end, Leaves lin. lanceol. channelled upright, Pedunc. shorter than nodding flow. 4706 Inner sepals vaulted at end, Leaves lin. lanc. channelled, Pedunc. spreading the length of nodding flow. 4707 Inner sepals vaulted at end, Lvs. lin. subul. chann. hairy clammy, Ped. spread. twice as long as nodd. fl. 4708 Inner sepals vaulted at end, Leaves lin. subulate convolute at the end spirally twisted villous 4709 Stem very short, Leaves 2-edged lengthwise, Scape very long higher than the spike 4710 Stemless, Leaves 3 cornered flat in front beyond the middle hollowed, Scape very long higher than spike 4711 Stemless, Leaves 3 cornered below the middle in front little raised above middle concave, Bracts very long 4712 Roots fibrous, Stems branched diffuse rounded striated, Branches somewhat angular, Anthers unequal 4713 Bulbs fascicled, Leaves radical channelled nearly as long as the rounded simple stem 4714 Leaves roundish acuminate cucullate at base 4715 Leaf sub-cordate acute cucullate pubescent 4716 Leaves ovate lanceolate at the edge wavy involute 4717 Leaves elliptical obtuse flat 4718 Leaf proliferous, Leaflets filiform undivided sessile 4719 Radical leaf linear flat, Peduncles simple umbellate, Sepals obtuse smooth, Bulbs clustered 4720 Radical leaf linear lanc. flat, Pedunc. simple somewhat umbellate, Sepals obtuse smooth, Bulb solitary 4721 Leaves linear filiform upright, Pedunc. about 3 with a three-leaved involucrum 4722 Scape angular naked, Pedunc. umbellate branched pubescent, Sepals lanc. acute 4723 Scape naked, Pedunc. 3 umbell. pubescent, Leaves filiform, Three outer sepals longer than the others 4724 Leaves half cylindrical, Cauline dilated at base 4725 Scape 2-leaved, Leaves opp. Pedunc. 1-fl. Outer sepals lanc. retuse: inner ellipt. twice as broad 4726 Scape naked, Flowers umbelled, Filam, all 2-forked bearing the anther in the middle 4727 Raceme few-flowered, Sepals lanceolate, Leaves filiform channelled, Filam, subulate 4728 Corymb few-flowered, Pedunc. longer than bractes, Filam. subulate 4729 Raceme spiked many-fl. Lvs. lin. lanc. weak, Every other stamen with two teeth, Bractes longer than fl. 4730 Raceme oblong, Filam. lanceolate membranous, Pedunc. and fl. spreading 4731 Corymb few-flowered shorter than lanceolate strongly fringed leaves 4732 Raceme very long, Sepals linear obtuse, Filam. lanceol. equal, Style the length of stamens 4733 Raceme very long, Sepals lanc. oblong, Filam. broad lanceol. alternately shorter 4734 Raceme long, Filam. subulate alternate lanceolate, Bractes membranous ovate twice as long as pedunc. 4735 Raceme few-flowered, Sepals linear oblong obliquely bent emarginate, Filam. lanc. subul. Leaves linear 4736 Leaves short oblong erect, Scape very long, Flowers campanulate the length of stamens 4737 Raceme very long, Filam, subulate, Pedunc. much longer than flower, Leaves lanceolate 4738 Raceme very long, Filam. subul. Pedunc. length of fl. Bractes the length of pedunc. Lvs. lin. lanc. loose 4739 Lvs. glaucous twisted upwards, Raceme divaricating on a long scape, Filaments with an ovate base 4740 Raceme very short, Bractes lanc. the length of flowers, Sepals obtuse, Filam. subulate 4741 Raceme conical, Fl. numerous ascending, Sepals oblong flat, Stam. lanc. equal, Style very short 4719 4729 4730 4736 4728 4734 4727 4732 4739 and Miscellaneous Particulars. 802. Ornithogalum. From oρviθoς, a bird, and γaλa, milk. No good explanation has been offered of the application of this word; that of Tournefort is not worth quoting. O. squilla is the officinal squill. It has a bulb almost as big as the human head, pear-shaped, and tunicate like the onion. From the middle of the root arise several shining leaves a foot long, and two inches broad at their base, lessening all the way to the top, where they end in points. They continue green all the winter, and decay in the spring; then the flowerstalk comes out, rising two feet high, naked about half way, and terminated by a pyramidal thyrse of white flowers.
The squill is one of the few medicines known in the early ages of Greece, which is still held in great estimation. It is very nauseous, intensely bitter and acrimonious, without any perceptible smell. It is poisonous to several animals: if much handled it exulcerates the skin; and in large doses frequently repeated, it not only excites nausea, but strangury, bloody urine, and hæmorrhoids, with fatal inflammation and gangrene of the stomach and bowels. Under proper management, however, it is a medicine of great practical utility. In T3 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
CLASS VI. 4742 odorátum W. 4743 barbátum, W. 4744 juncifólium W. 4745 rupéstre W. sweet-scented or 1½ my.jn P.Y C. G. H.
O r.m Bot. rep. 260 bearded or 1 my.jl W C. G. H.
O r.m Jac. sch. 1. t. 91 Rush-leaved or jl.au W C. G. H.
O r.m Bot. mag. 972 rock or my.au WC. G. H. 4746 arábicum W. great-flowered or 1 mr.ap W Egypt O r.m Bot. mag. 728 4747 thyrsoídes W. 4748 aúreum W. thyrse-flower. or 1 jn.jl WC. G. H. 1757. golden or jn.jl Y C. G. H. 1790. 4749 flavíssimum Jac. 4750 coarctátum W. great-yellow or 1 jn.jl YC. G. H. 1804. close-flowered or 1½ jn.jl W.GC. G. H. 1804.
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