. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. ape ofGood Hope the maximum of the Order isbeheld m all the beauty of Haemanthus,Crinum, Ch\aa, Cyrtanthus, and Bruns\ few are fomid in New Holland, the mostremarkable of which is Doryanthes. This is one of the few monocotyledonous Or-ders in which poisonous properties are principally apparent in the viscidjuice of the bulbs of Hsemanthus toxicariusand some ncighbom-ing species, in wliich th Hottentots are said to dip then- aiTow-heads,and AmarylUs Belladonna,
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. ape ofGood Hope the maximum of the Order isbeheld m all the beauty of Haemanthus,Crinum, Ch\aa, Cyrtanthus, and Bruns\ few are fomid in New Holland, the mostremarkable of which is Doryanthes. This is one of the few monocotyledonous Or-ders in which poisonous properties are principally apparent in the viscidjuice of the bulbs of Hsemanthus toxicariusand some ncighbom-ing species, in wliich th Hottentots are said to dip then- aiTow-heads,and AmarylUs Belladonna, which is saidto be employed for poisoning in the WestIndies, {Endl.) ; but this is no doubt a mis-take, and the statement applies to some otherbulbs of the Order—for the Belladonna is aCape plant; probably to Hippeastra, whichMartins tells us have poisonous bulbs. Thebulbs of Leucoiimi vernum, of the Snowdropand Daffodil, have for ages been Imown asemetic ; and it has recently been shown byLoiselem- Deslongchamps that a snnilarpower exists in Narcissus Tazetta, odorusand Poeticus, and in Pancratium Fig. cv. Fig. CV.—Littaea geminiflora. Narcissales.] The flowers of NarcissusPseudo-Narcissus are not onlyemetic, but a dangerous poison,occasionally producing seriousconsequences in infants whichare allowed to swallow CandoUe considers the prin-ciple found in Amaryllids ana-logous to that of the Squill(Essai, p. 290). Oporanthusluteus is purgative, Alstrome-ria salsilla diaphoretic and diu-retic, AmarylUs ornata astrin-gent. Agardh Aph. 178. Akind of arrow-root is preparedfrom the succulent roots ofAlstromeria pallida and others, in Chile. BomareaSalsilla is employed as a sub-stitute for Sarsaparilla. AgaveAmericana, the Ameiican Aloe,which is said to flower onceonly in a hundred years, agardeners fable, forms impe-netrable hedges with its hardand spiny leaves ; its fibre andthat of some neighbourmg spe-cies, especially thePita plant, is ex-tremely tough, an
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