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clear weather about eijjht in the morning,
so that the damp may disperse before
the raysofthe sun fall directly upon
the plants."— Card. Cliron.
A. Long/flora. " Tlie bulbs of this
may be started in a warm cucumber
frame towards the end of P'ebruary.
Each plant, when it has formed a few
leaves, should then be potted off, separately,
into small pots, or, preferably,
several may be planted together in a
shallow box. The temperature of a
warm green-house suits them admirably."
Card. Chron.
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ACHYRONIA villosa. Green-house
evergreen
loam.
shrub. Cuttings. Peat and
ACIANTHUS. Three species. Tuberous
green-house plants. Division.
Loam and peat.
ACICARPHA spatidata. Herbaceous
stove perennial. Division. Loam
and peat.
ACIOTIS. Two species. Stove
evergreen shrubs.
loam.
Cuttings. Peat and
ACIS. Four species. Hardy bulbs.
Offsets. Sandy loam.
ACISANTHERA quadrata. Stove
evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Peat and
loam.
ACMADENIA tetragona. Greenhouse
evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Loam
and peat.
ACMENA Jloribi^nda. Green-house
evergreen
loam.
shrub. Cuttings. Sandy
ACONITUM. Eighty species hardy
deciduous tubers; and thirty-four species
hardy herbaceous perennials. " A.
Napellus, from napus, a turnip, its grumous
roots resembling little turnips, is
n well known poisonous plant. Linnaaus
says, that it is fatal to kine and
goats, especially when they come fresh
to it, and are not acquainted with the
plant; but that it does no injury to
horses, who eat it only when dry. He
also relates (from the Stockholm Acts)
that an ignorant surgeon prescribed the
root is unquestionably the most powerful
partofthe plant. Matthiolus relates,
that a criminal was put to death by
taking one drachm of it. Dodonseus
gives us an instance, recent in his time,
of five persons at Antwerp, who ate the
root by mistake, and ail died. Dr,
Turner also mentions, that some Frenchmen
at the same place, eating the
shoots of this plant for those of masterwort,
all died in the course of two days,
e.xcept two players, who quickly evacuated
all that they had taken by vomit.
We have an account, in the Philosophical
Transactions, of a man who was
poisoned, in the year 1732, by eating
some of this plant in a salad, instead of
celery. Dr. Willis also, in his work De
Anima Brutorum, gives an instance of a
man who died in a few hours, by eating
the tender leaves of this plant also in
a salad. He was seized with all the
symptoms of mania. Tlie Aconite,
thus invested with terrors, has, however,
been so far subdued, as to become
a powerful remedy in some of the most
troublesome disorders incident to the
human frame. Baron Stoerck led the
way by administering it in violent pains
of the side and joints, in glandulous
scirrhi, tumours, ulcerous tubercles of
the breast, &c., to the quantity of from
ten to thirty grains in a dose, of an extract,
the method of making which he
describes."
with swooning fits, and have lost their tings. Sandy peat.
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eight for two or three days. Cut the
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Encyc. Plants. Division.
Common garden soil.
ous.
All are poison-
ACRO'NYCHI A cunningh ami. Greenhouse
shrub. Cuttings. Sandy loam
and peat.
ACROPERA loddigesii. Stove epiphyte.
Division. Peat and potsherds.
ACROPHYLLUM verticillatum.
Green-house shrub. Cuttings. Loam
and pent.
ACROSPIRE is the name whereby
malsters, gardeners, and others describe
the sprouts from barley and other seeds
when germinating, and which are the
and plumule, the infant root and
leaves, and on the patient refusing to
take them, he took them himself and
stem.
ACROSTICHUM. Sixteen species.
died. The ancients, who were ac Chiefly stove herbaceous perennials.
quainted with chemical poisons, regard A. alcicorne and A. grande are greened
the Aconite as the most violent ofi house plants. Division and seed Loam
all poisons. Some persons, only by and peat.
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taking in the effluvia of the herb in full ACROTRICHE. Threes
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flower by the nostrils, have been seized Green-house evergreen shrubs.
ACTINOMERIS. Four species.