. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. SPERMATOPHYTA—ARISTOLOCHIALES 417 ties; the Dutchman's pipe {Aristolochia macrophylla) frequently cultivated and hardly as far north as Minnesota and Wisconsin; the gooseplant (Aristolochia grandiflora) of Brazil whose flowers emit an offensive odor, but in spite of this fact the plant is cultivated in greenhouses; Virginia snakeroot (Aristolochia Serpentaria) the root stock of which is used as a tonic and contains a volatile oil bor
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. SPERMATOPHYTA—ARISTOLOCHIALES 417 ties; the Dutchman's pipe {Aristolochia macrophylla) frequently cultivated and hardly as far north as Minnesota and Wisconsin; the gooseplant (Aristolochia grandiflora) of Brazil whose flowers emit an offensive odor, but in spite of this fact the plant is cultivated in greenhouses; Virginia snakeroot (Aristolochia Serpentaria) the root stock of which is used as a tonic and contains a volatile oil borneol, a bitter poisonous principle aristolochin C„„H„„N„0,„ and the alka- loid aristolochinin. The European (A. Cleinatitis) produces colic and othet gastric disturbances and is listed among the pungent narcotic poisons. The sub- stance asarin when heated is Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pammel, L. H. (Louis Hermann), 1862-1931. Cedar Rapids, Ia. , The Torch Press
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