Squill or sea onion (Drimia maritima): flowering stem, bulb, leaf and floral segments. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1847.

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Sea onion, in different forms, is used as a cardiac stimulant etc. and as rat-poison

[London (Ave Maria Lane)] : [Whittaker & Co.], [1847]

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour

Scilla maritima

Published description of the plant illustrated and its medicinal uses in : M.A.Burnett, Plantae utiliores ..., London, 1847

Wellcome Collection 23823i

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