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Along the coastal margin, the spring squill makes hazy blue carpets in early spring.
Expectorants for example guaiphenesin, ammonium chloride, squill, sodium citrate and ipecacuanha may help chesty coughs.
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.
The first plants to appear with the melting snows include drifts of spring and trumpet gentians, Narcissus asturiensis and spring squill.
The clifftop has spectacular displays of sea campion, thrift and spring squill.
There are in fact the squill, clover, the asphodel, the splint, the olive, the sumac, the broom, mixed with euphorbia and wallflowers.
Red squill is an exception that can be used against R norvegicus, but it is not as effective against R. rattus.
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.
Occasionally spring squill are found in grassy areas away from the coast.
At the base of the cliffs, there is thrift, spring squill, sea stork's-bill, rock samphire and buckhorn plantain.
The Pyrenean squill, which abounds, offers a magnificent picture of the ground covers with blue flowers during the spring.
Winter aconite, snowdrop, and striped squill flower in February or March.
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.
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.
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.
It contains liquorice liquid extract, squill tincture and menthol to combat phlegm and any congestion.
Certain plants repel mice and keep them from nesting at the foot of trees: amaryllis, mint, lavender, daffodils, narcissus, squill, hyacinth, catnip and spurge.
Foxgloves, bluebells, thrift, sea campion, sea plantain and spring squill are among the wild flowers found in abundance.
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.
I use squill and pleurisy root, two herbs that have been used to manage bronchitis.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The nauseant action of squill, which is alluded to in connection with Anasarcin, is too well known to require more than a mention.
The central emetics are apomorphine, tartar emetic, ipecacuanha, senega and squill.
But Nicander the Colophonian, in his essay on Dialects, says that the carcharias is also called the lamias and the squill.
Extract of squill, while it augments transpiration, promotes the urinary secretion, and facilitates expectoration.
The mummies of Egyptian women often hold the squill in one hand, probably as an emblem of generation.
Scillain, or Scillitin, a glucoside which has been separated from the bulbs of the common squill.
But they are a species of squill, and this name was given them by the Romans.
When this prescription had produced a little ptyalism the mercurial was omitted and the squill and digitalis continued.
It is not improbable that the squill might have some share in this cure.
Blaze, Stubbs, and squill chanced to be out that day along the shore.
Traditionally, herbs such as squill, garlic and lobelia would have been prescribed.
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