. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 650 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS states that the chemistry of the plant has not yet been worked out, but that all parts are poisonous, the root especially deadly. Lehmann states, however, that the first species is not as poisonous as was formerly supposed; sheep and hogs eat it, although it is poisonous to horses. In the latter it is said to produce • paralysis of the hind legs. Berula erecta of Europe and North America is poison- ous,
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 650 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS states that the chemistry of the plant has not yet been worked out, but that all parts are poisonous, the root especially deadly. Lehmann states, however, that the first species is not as poisonous as was formerly supposed; sheep and hogs eat it, although it is poisonous to horses. In the latter it is said to produce • paralysis of the hind legs. Berula erecta of Europe and North America is poison- ous, especially the root. It is a smooth aquatic perennial, with compound simple pinnate leaves; leaflets linear oblong, serrate to cut-toothed; flowers white, and fruit globose. In Australia according to Maiden the Apiuni leptophyllum when grown in damp soils is poisonous. The wild parsnip of that country is one of the most poisonous plants of Australia, no antidote to it being known. The Chaerophyl- lum temulum of Europe causes colic and stupor. The parsley is not ordinarily considered poisonous but is said to be injurious to birds. The gum resin am- moniac found on the stem of Dorema Ammoniacum is acrid. The resin re- sults from the sting of an insect. The genus Ferula from which Asafoetida is derived causes haematuria and bleeding at the Fig. 370. Creeping Water- parsnip {Beruta erecta). Very poisonous. (After Fitch.) Genera of Umbelliferae Flowers yellow 7 Pastinaca. Flowers white or greenish. Fruit bristly, winged 9 Daucus. Fruit, not bristly, winged. Fruit winged, dorsally flattened. Flowers greenish S Angelica. Flowers white. Leaves pinnate or ternate, clustered, tuberous roots. .6 Oxjrpolis. Leaves ternately-compound, root not tuberous 8 Heracleum. Fruit wingless flattened dorsally or laterally 4 Aethusa. Fruit ovoid or oval. ' Flowers white. Biennial plant 1 Conium Perennial, roots usually Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page
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