. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. LILIALES. 459 Southern and Eastern Africa, the inspissated juice of whose leaves con- stitutes tile drug Aloes. SmUax officinalis, of South America, and other species, furnish Sarsa- parilla Fig 349 —Underground parts of Colchicum antiiTnmUe at the time of flowering. A. front view ; *, old corm; y, s", scales surrounding flower stalk. B, section show- ing new stem, h\ with rudimentary leaves, V, I" ; the very long tubular flowers, S, fi', spring from near the. summit of the new stem, W. 'i'he followmg spring h' will elon- gate an
. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. LILIALES. 459 Southern and Eastern Africa, the inspissated juice of whose leaves con- stitutes tile drug Aloes. SmUax officinalis, of South America, and other species, furnish Sarsa- parilla Fig 349 —Underground parts of Colchicum antiiTnmUe at the time of flowering. A. front view ; *, old corm; y, s", scales surrounding flower stalk. B, section show- ing new stem, h\ with rudimentary leaves, V, I" ; the very long tubular flowers, S, fi', spring from near the. summit of the new stem, W. 'i'he followmg spring h' will elon- gate and carry the IViiit, and leaves V, I", above ground ; the lower part of W will en- large into a corm like k\ while at k" a new plint will form as a lateral bud.—After Sachs. 8cUla maritima ; the sliced bulb of this Mediterranean sand plant is the druji Squill. Veratrum album, the White Hejlebpre of the ntountains of Central. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bessey, Charles E. (Charles Edwin), 1845-1915. New York : H. Holt
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