Gloriosa superba: spectacularly beautiful climbing lily. Roots, stalks, leaves contain an acrid narcotic, superbine, as well as colchicine and choline. Three grains of colchicine are fatal. Hawaii.

“The paramedics originally thought he was slizzered. Now? An intensivist told the nurses that she thought this was the initial stage of coma.” “'Slizzered? Is that what you said? That's a new one for me.” “Think drunk and simultaneously plastered on energy drinks.”

The great fertility of the Cotton-plant in these fine flexile threads, whilst those from Flax, Hemp, and Nettles, or from the bark of the Mulberry-tree, require a previous putrefaction of the parenchymatous substance, and much mechanical labour, and afterwards bleaching, renders this plant of great importance to the world.

What's that tune that goes diddle di-dum, diddle di-dum, diddle di-dum-dum?