Fig. 218. Colchicum autumnale.
1. Closed capsule. 2. Open capsule. 3. Styles. 4. Section of capsules. 5. Seed.
This image is from Colchicum autumnale in Pereira's Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, 1854.
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