. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. Fig. 216. Meadow I<ychnis (Lychnis Plos-cuculi). Con- tains saponin. (After Fitch.) Fig. 217. Corn cockle (Agrostemma Gith- ago). a, sprays showing flowers and seed capsule, one-third natural size; by seed, nat- ural size; b', seed, four times natural size. (U. S. Dept. Agr.) Poisonous properties. According to Kruskal, the seeds contain githagin 2(C^yH2jOjj). The ripe dried seeds are broken into a coarse powder and used in medicin
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. Fig. 216. Meadow I<ychnis (Lychnis Plos-cuculi). Con- tains saponin. (After Fitch.) Fig. 217. Corn cockle (Agrostemma Gith- ago). a, sprays showing flowers and seed capsule, one-third natural size; by seed, nat- ural size; b', seed, four times natural size. (U. S. Dept. Agr.) Poisonous properties. According to Kruskal, the seeds contain githagin 2(C^yH2jOjj). The ripe dried seeds are broken into a coarse powder and used in medicine. Dr. Millspaugh gives the proportions as follows: "Five parts by weight of alcohol are poured upon the powder, and the whole allowed to stand eight days in a well stoppered bottle in a dark cool place, shaking thoroughly twice a ; The tincture is somewhat acrid. The seeds of the cockle are frequently used to adulterate cheaper grades of flour in Europe. Dr. Millspaugh gives a case in which death followed where two 14^ oz. lots of wheat flour containing respectively 30% and 45% of these seeds were fed to two calves. This amount of cockle caused severe cramps of the stomach within an hour, followed by diarrhoea and finally death. Where ducks and geese ate the seeds, death followed when sufficient was taken, and the post-mortem showed inflamma- tion of the bowels. Prof. Pierce states that this is especially true when the seeds are crushed. A large amount of screenings are sold for chicken feed, and frequently complaints are made of poison, or at least that chickens will not eat the screenings. In describing symptoms indicative of poisoning by corn cockle, which. Dr. Allen says, place the seeds among the cerebro-spinal irritants, he agrees es- sentially with Dr. 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 resem
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