. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. 848 XXXV. EEIOSPEEMB^. species, are now fallen
. A general system of botany, descriptive and analytical. In two parts. Part I. Outlines of organography, anatomy, and physiology. Part II. Descriptions and illustrations of the orders. By Emm. Le Maout [and] J. Decaisne. With 5500 figures by L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux. Translated from the original by Mrs. Hooker. The orders arranged after the method followed in the universities and schools of Great Britain, its colonies, America, and India; with additions, an appendix on the natural method, and a synopsis of the orders, by Hooker. Botany. 848 XXXV. EEIOSPEEMB^. species, are now fallen into disuse. It is the same with the genera Hyacinthus, Muscari, Ornithogahim, the bulbs of which were formerly used as purgatives and diuretics; those of Omithogalum altissimuni are still in use at the Cape for asthma and pulmonary catarrhs [those of O. pyrenaicum are sold and eaten at Bath as French asparagus]. The tuberous roots of Anthericum and Asphodelus lose their acridity by desiccation or boiling; they were formerly considered diuretics and emmenagogues; the Asphodel (A. ramosus) was used as a substitute for the Squill. Some endeavours have recently been made to extract an alcoholic spirit from its tuberous roots. Tulbaghia aUiacea, cepacea, &c., with an alliaceous odour, have thick fibrous roots, which are cooked in milk and administered at the Cape for phthisis and worms. XXXV. ERIOSPERME^.. Eriospe?-mum IcUi/oUum. Flower. Perennial hebbs witt tuberous roots. Leaves precocious, petioled, rounded, thick, â with projecting reticulate nerves ; blade bul- billiferous or gemmiparous below. Scape growing after the decay of the leaves, simple, cylindric. Flowers 5, racemed or panicled; pedicels with a scarious bract at the base. Peei- ANTH petaloid, 6-partite> campanulate, persistent. Stamens 6, inserted at the bottom of the perianth; filaments flat, dilated at the base ; anthers sagittate- didymous, incumbent. OvAET free, with 3 few- ovuled cells ; style filiform,
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