. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . Scrophulariacee).A, plant, in flower, reduced. B, flower, %. C, same, cut , E, stamens. F, pistil. G, fruit, (v. Wettstein.)—Biennial or peren-nial 1 m. or less in height; leaves downy; flowers purplish rosy, orwhite, more or less spotted within; fruit dry. Native home, Europe. Fig. 19-3.—Lily-of-the-valley (Conmllaria Lily Family, Liliacete).Root. Leaves. Flower-clusters. Corolla and stamens. Fruit-cluster.(Britton and Brown.)—Perennial herb; leaves .smooth; flowers white,fragrant; fruit pulpy, red. Native home. Temper
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . Scrophulariacee).A, plant, in flower, reduced. B, flower, %. C, same, cut , E, stamens. F, pistil. G, fruit, (v. Wettstein.)—Biennial or peren-nial 1 m. or less in height; leaves downy; flowers purplish rosy, orwhite, more or less spotted within; fruit dry. Native home, Europe. Fig. 19-3.—Lily-of-the-valley (Conmllaria Lily Family, Liliacete).Root. Leaves. Flower-clusters. Corolla and stamens. Fruit-cluster.(Britton and Brown.)—Perennial herb; leaves .smooth; flowers white,fragrant; fruit pulpy, red. Native home. Temperate Eurasia andEastern United States. PLANTS POISONOUS TO EAT 205 eating cherry leaves in this condition. A similar formationof prussic acid takes place in the kernels of cherry stones inthe presence of moisture. It is therefore dangerous to swal-low the fruit whole or to eat many of the kernels. Childrenhave died from so doing. The flowers of poisonous plants are dangerous in two ways:(1) by affording a poisonous honey, and (2) by their at-.
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