. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . _i. (Chesnut.)—Shnib 1-12 m. tali; leaves evergreen; flowers pink; fruit dry, home, Eastern United States. Fig. 190.—.Sheep Laurel (Kalmia anfiualifolia. Heath Family, Ericucca).Flowering branch. Flower. Fruiting branch. Fruit. (Britton andBrown.)—Shrul) 1.) cm. 1 m. tall; leaves evergreen; flowers or crims(jn; fruit dry, brownish. Native home. Eastern NorthAmerica. prove alluring perhaps on account of its common part of the plant is highly It has been ex-tensively in quack medicines an
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany . _i. (Chesnut.)—Shnib 1-12 m. tali; leaves evergreen; flowers pink; fruit dry, home, Eastern United States. Fig. 190.—.Sheep Laurel (Kalmia anfiualifolia. Heath Family, Ericucca).Flowering branch. Flower. Fruiting branch. Fruit. (Britton andBrown.)—Shrul) 1.) cm. 1 m. tall; leaves evergreen; flowers or crims(jn; fruit dry, brownish. Native home. Eastern NorthAmerica. prove alluring perhaps on account of its common part of the plant is highly It has been ex-tensively in quack medicines and has caused a largenumber of deaths. Very young plants of the mountain laurel(Fig. 189) and the sheep laurel (Fig. 190) are especially dan- PLANTS POISONOUS TO EAT 203 gerous from the rather close resemblance of the leaves of smallseedlings to wintergreen or checkerberry leaves (see Fig. 147)which children are fond of chewing. The laurels are amongour most poisonous plants and have a bad record particularlywith reference to domestic Fig. 191.—Snow-on-the-mountain (Euphorbia marginata. Spurge Family,Euphorhiacece). a, whole plant, J. h, seed pod. (Chesmit.)—Annualgrow-ing about 1 m. tall; upper leaves broadly margined with white;flowers greenish yellow; fruit dry. Native home. Western NorthAmerica. A peculiar danger attaches to the leaves of cherry-trees,especially of the wild black cherry. These trees frequentlygrow on the borders of pastures where cattle are kept, and itoften happens that persons having broken off branches, 204 MEDICINAL AND POISONOUS PLANTS perhaps to get the fruit, throw the leafy twigs into the pas-tures within reach of the cattle. As the leaves begin to wilta very powerful poison (prussic acid) is developed by fermen-tation, and manv deaths to stock have occurred from their
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