(1) Vinegar flavoured with squill (also known as ‘sea onion’, Urginea maritima) was a favourite condiment.(2) Some drug materials, e.g. garlic and squill , are extremely hygroscopic and in the presence of water tend to fuse into lumps which make them unsuitable for the percolation process.(3) Expectorants for example guaiphenesin, ammonium chloride, squill , sodium citrate and ipecacuanha may help chesty coughs.(4) A number of herbs including oleander, adonis, black Indian hemp, black hellebore, lily-of-the-valley, squill , and strophanthus contain an active cardiac glycoside that can potentiate digoxin.(5) 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.(6) Large bulbs such as tulips and daffodils should be placed four to six inches apart while smaller bulbs such as crocus, snowdrops, and squill , should be placed one to two inches apart.(7) Meanwhile on land, the spring flowers were also showing in some splendour - these spring squill had formed dense mats on some rocky parts of the machair, while the burns were a mass of marsh marigolds in parts.(8) Along with the various scillas, consideration must be given to the striped squills or Puschkinias.(9) Along the coastal margin, the spring squill makes hazy blue carpets in early spring.(10) The picture above shows volunteer Dutchman's breeches, blue and striped squills , and Trillium recurvatum.(11) ‘If one of us had a cough, Mam would send me to the chemist for a ‘shilling mix’ (bring your own bottle), which consisted of three-penny-worth each of glycerine, syrup of squills , liquorice, and ipecac wine.(12) 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.(13) With striped squill , the corona is made up of ‘fused filaments’ and the flowers ‘do not open flat.’(14) 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.(15) Abundant marsh-marigold, northern marsh-orchid and meadowsweet occur in wetter ground; carpets of spring squill , bird's foot-trefoil and heath spotted-orchid cover cliff tops; the wetter heaths turn golden with bog asphodel; and grazing-sensitive kidney vetch and wild angelica have re-colonised some seasonally grazed pastures.(16) Occasionally spring squill are found in grassy areas away from the coast.
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