. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. EUPHORBIACEAE 589. Fig. 326. Croton (Croton Tiglium). Flowering and fruiting branch. Tlie source of croton oil. (After Faguet.) glands and hairs covering the fruit of kamala (Mallotus philippinensis) a dye is made. The fruit is also used as a vermifuge; it contains rottlerin Cj^H^^Og and isorottlerin. Many species of the genus are regarded as poisonous. Maiden states that the B. Drummondii is poisonous to stock in New South Wales. It
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. EUPHORBIACEAE 589. Fig. 326. Croton (Croton Tiglium). Flowering and fruiting branch. Tlie source of croton oil. (After Faguet.) glands and hairs covering the fruit of kamala (Mallotus philippinensis) a dye is made. The fruit is also used as a vermifuge; it contains rottlerin Cj^H^^Og and isorottlerin. Many species of the genus are regarded as poisonous. Maiden states that the B. Drummondii is poisonous to stock in New South Wales. It is known as the milk plant and is especially troublesome to sheep. It causes the head to swell to an enormous size so that the animal cannot support its head. Suppuration frequently follows. B. alsinaeflora is also poisonous to sheep in the same country. B. eremophila is another suspect in that country. B. heptagona is an arrow poison. Some species of this genus are used as fish Emanations of B. characias at one time were supposed to cause malarial fever which, however, was an erroneous assumption. Lehmann, a German writer on poisonous plants lists the following species as poisonous: B. Lathyris, B. Heliscopia, B. platyphylla, B. Bsula, B. Cyparissias, B. palustris, B. Peplus, B. exigua. The B. antiquorum of the East Indies, B. canariensis of the Ca- nary Islands, and B. Reinhardtii oi the Transvaal contain a milky acrid poisonous juice.* The resin from Buphorbia produces sneezing, irritation of face and skin, vomiting and diarrhoea and when used in large doses, death. Where the drug is manufactured, workmen must protect themselves; but, even then, head- ache, dizziness and weakness follow. To poisoning from members of the genus Euphorbia, Friedberger and Frohner ascribe such symptoms as constipation, severe and bloody diarrhoea, feeble pulse and tympanites. *BuIl. Misc. Inf. Roy. Card. Kew, 1908: Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page im
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