. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. PRIMULALES — PRIMULACEVE 675 Distribution. Low grounds from Rhode Island to Florida, Tennessee and Arkansas. Poisonous properties. All three species are poisonous. The leaves of the fetter-bush contain a narcotic poison, the andromedotoxin C^^K^fi^^, and have been known to kill sheep. Sheep have also been poisoned by the mountain fetter-bush. The stagger-bush received its name because of the intoxicating effect of its leaves on sheep
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. PRIMULALES — PRIMULACEVE 675 Distribution. Low grounds from Rhode Island to Florida, Tennessee and Arkansas. Poisonous properties. All three species are poisonous. The leaves of the fetter-bush contain a narcotic poison, the andromedotoxin C^^K^fi^^, and have been known to kill sheep. Sheep have also been poisoned by the mountain fetter-bush. The stagger-bush received its name because of the intoxicating effect of its leaves on sheep and cattle. PRIMULALES Herbs or shrubs; corolla mostly present, gamopetalous; stamens borne on the corolla as many as its lobes or twice as many or more. The family Plum- baginaceae contains Statice, growing mostly in saline soil along the coast. It is used as an astringent, particularly in diarrhoea. The baycurn ^Statice brasilien~ sis) is one of the most powerful astringents, and is used locally as a Fig. 386. Stagger-bush {Lyonia mari- ana), showing flowering branch, one-third natural size. It contains a narcotic poison. (Chesnut, U. S. Dept. Agr.) PeimulacEab. Primrose Family Herbs with simple leaves and regular flowers; calyx S-parted; stamens as many as the lobes of the gamopetalous corolla and borne upon it; ovary 1-celled, bearing several or many seeds; calyx free from the ovary or partly adherent A small order with about 28 genera, and 3S0 species, of wide distribution in the northern hemisphere, many of them 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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