ASPHODELOIDE

/: (Lat.), n. f. pl. A?s(a8s)-fo?d-e?1-0(0?)-i?d"- e?-e(a-e2). Fr., asphodeloidées. 1. A section of liliaceous plants made by Ventenat. [B, 170.] 2. Of Engler, a suborder of liliaceous plants, compra the tribes Asphodeleæ, He me roc all ideæ, Aloîneæ, Aphyllanthew, Johns onieæ, Dasypogoneæ, Lomandreæ, and Calectasieæ; corresponding in part, therefore, to Asphodeleæ in its widest sense. [Engler (B, 245).] , ASPHODEL US (Lat.), n. m. A?s(a?s)-fo?d'e?l-u3s(uts). Gr., daopôscdos. Fr., asphodèle. Ger., Asphodill, Affodill. It.. asfodillo. Sp., asfodel. The asphodel, day-lily, or daffodil; a genus of liliaceous plane belonging to the enaaleey established by Linnæus, compri as herbs with radical subulate leaves, and flowers, usually white, having a ane perianth and 6 declinate upcurved stamens with dilated bases arching over the free ovary, aud with a globular, trilocular, capsular fruit, having 2 seeds in each cell, [B, 34, 180,|—A. æstivus. 1. Of Reichenbach, see À. tenuifolius. 2. Of Brotero, a perennial Portuguese species. [B, 188.|— A. alb us [Miller], A. alb us non ramosus. Fr., asphodèle blanc. Ger., wei er Asphodill (oder Affodill). A species by some united with A. ramosus, but differing from the latter in its not branching stem, the color and length of the bracts and the larger, ovate capsule. It is found in the portions of Europe and Africa bordering upon the Mediterranean and in Dalmatia and Persia. Its root-tubers (radix hhodeli alb i) were used like those of A. ramosus. The A. alb us of Nees v. Esenbeck is the A. fistulosus. [B, 180. 188.]—A. alhus ramosus. See A. ramosus.—A. canarlensis [smitny. See À. tenuifolius.—A. fistulosus [Linnaeus]. A species, yy some included with A. ramosus, growing in the Mediterranean countries of Europe and Africa, distinguished by its stems branching above and by its subulate, sub fistulose, rather rough leaves. [B, A. folio fistuloso stria to [Morison]. The Asphodeline lutea, |B, 211.;—A. in termed i us [Hornem.]. See 4. tenuifolius—A. lute us [Linnæus]. See ASPHODELINE lutea,—A. major alb us ramosus. See A. ramosus.—A. major non ramosus. See A. alb us.—A. major ramosus flore albo. See À. ramosus.—A. mlerocarpus [Viviani]. See A, ramosus.— A. minor ([Clusius]. See A. fistulosus—A. neglect us [Romer and Schultes]. A species wing in Hungary, the mountains of Italy, and the Pyrenees; by Kunth identified’ with 4, alb us, by others regarded as a distinct species closely related to A. ramosus, It has the same medicinal applications as the latter. [B, 180, 188.] — A. racemosus [Link]. See À. ramosus.—A. ramosus [Linnæus]. Fr., asphodèle rameux, lis asphodèle, baton royal. Ger., dstiger Asphodill, Kônigswurzel, Kupferwurzel, Gold wurzel. Syn.: hastula regia, sceptrum regium, King's spear, white branched asphodel; a species having a naked branching stem, each.branch bearing a spike of white, star-shaped flowers having the petals streaked with purple. The. rhizome and aggre; fet obk wedge-shaped Toe tubel brownish externally, dirty yellow within, of fleshy consistency and unpleasant, acrid. bitter taste, were formerly used in medicine under the names of radix asphodel i (seu asphodel i alb i_vera, seu hastulæ, seu hastule reg is, seu hastulee reg iæ, seu martagi) and bacilli regii. They were the aogddedos of Dioscorides and are said to constitute the drug, used at the present day in Morocco, known as ablaluz. They have been used as a diuretic, emetic, and emmenagogue, and boiled in wine lees, as a poultice for application to wounds and cutaneous eruptions. [A, 827; B, 180; ** Proc. of the Am. Pharm. A oc.,” xxiii, p. 183 (B); L, 94.J— A. tenuifolius [Cavanilles|. A s, s indigenous to the Canary Island closely related to A. fistulosus and pethars only a variety of the latter. t constitutes the drug known as elhet lahode in Morocco, The A, tenuifolius of the “ Hortus berolinensis” is the A. fistulosus. [B, 188; “Proc. of the Am. Pharm. A oc.,” xxiv, p. 114 (B).]—A. ver us alb us. See A, alb us—A. ver us lute us. See AsPHODELINE lutea.—Radix asphodel i. The tuberous roots of A. ramosus and Asphodeline lutea. [B, 180; I, 30.|—Radix asphodel i alb i. The rhizome and tubers of A. alb us and A. ramosus. [B, 180.]—Radix asphodel i alb i vera, The rhizome and tubers of À. ramosus. |B, 180.]—Radix asphodel i lute i. ‘The tuberous rhizome of Asphodeline lutea. [B, 180.}