Along the coastal margin, the spring squill makes hazy blue carpets in early spring. |
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Expectorants for example guaiphenesin, ammonium chloride, squill, sodium citrate and ipecacuanha may help chesty coughs. |
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In early summer, the ledges and cliff tops are carpeted with wild flowers such as bird's foot trefoil, kidney vetch, spring squill and thrift. |
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The first plants to appear with the melting snows include drifts of spring and trumpet gentians, Narcissus asturiensis and spring squill. |
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The clifftop has spectacular displays of sea campion, thrift and spring squill. |
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There are in fact the squill, clover, the asphodel, the splint, the olive, the sumac, the broom, mixed with euphorbia and wallflowers. |
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Red squill is an exception that can be used against R norvegicus, but it is not as effective against R. rattus. |
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Scilla, or squill, is a naturalizing bulb that produces clusters of 1-inch, bell-shaped blooms in blue, purple, pink and white on 6-to 10-inch stems. |
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Occasionally spring squill are found in grassy areas away from the coast. |
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At the base of the cliffs, there is thrift, spring squill, sea stork's-bill, rock samphire and buckhorn plantain. |
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The Pyrenean squill, which abounds, offers a magnificent picture of the ground covers with blue flowers during the spring. |
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Winter aconite, snowdrop, and striped squill flower in February or March. |
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There is a good display of common primrose on cliffsides and stream banks and of blue spring squill in coastal heaths at Corbiegoe, Dwarick, Dunnet and Duncansby Head. |
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A white form of the squill produces the glycoside scillaren A, which contains the aglycone scillarenin, whereas a red form produces scilliroside, which is specifically toxic to rodents and has long been used as a rat poison. |
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The squill, or sea onion, Scilla maritima, a seashore plant, contains several toxic glycosides, the aglycones of which are bufadienolides more typical of the toad poisons than of plant products. |
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It contains liquorice liquid extract, squill tincture and menthol to combat phlegm and any congestion. |
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Certain plants repel mice and keep them from nesting at the foot of trees: amaryllis, mint, lavender, daffodils, narcissus, squill, hyacinth, catnip and spurge. |
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Foxgloves, bluebells, thrift, sea campion, sea plantain and spring squill are among the wild flowers found in abundance. |
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Today derivatives of opium alkaloids are widely employed for pain relief, and, while squill was used for a time as a cardiac stimulant, it is better known as a rat poison. |
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I use squill and pleurisy root, two herbs that have been used to manage bronchitis. |
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Over in the formal terrace beds, Glory-of-the-snow with its deep blue flowers stands proud, complementing the blue striped petals of its neighbouring Stripped Squill. |
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