. Nature study and life. Nature study. no NATURE STUDY AND LIFE without marginal teeth. Its very prominent leaf scars are sufKcient to distinguish it from other shrubs in winter. It grows in swamps and damp woods from Florida to Canada and westward to Louisiana. It is poisonous to the skin in the same way as poison ivy and requires the same precautions in handling and the same treatment. Poison Oak, Rhus diversiloba. â (Poison ivy, yeara, Cali- fornia poison sumac.) This is a western plant of the same class with the two preceding and should be treated in the same way.^ Poison Hemlock, Conium m
. Nature study and life. Nature study. no NATURE STUDY AND LIFE without marginal teeth. Its very prominent leaf scars are sufKcient to distinguish it from other shrubs in winter. It grows in swamps and damp woods from Florida to Canada and westward to Louisiana. It is poisonous to the skin in the same way as poison ivy and requires the same precautions in handling and the same treatment. Poison Oak, Rhus diversiloba. â (Poison ivy, yeara, Cali- fornia poison sumac.) This is a western plant of the same class with the two preceding and should be treated in the same way.^ Poison Hemlock, Conium maculatum. â â (Hemlock, wild hemlock, spotted parsley, stinkweed, poison root, poison snakeweed, cashes, wode-whistle.) Poison hemlock is a hollow-stemmed biennial, two to seven feet tall, stems smooth and purple spotted, widely distributed about roadsides and waste lands. The flowers are white, appear- ing in July and August. The leaves have an extremely nauseating taste and when bruised emit a characteristic " mousy" odor. Poisoning occurs by eating the seeds or roots or even by blowing whistles made from the hol- low stems. It probably furnished Fig. 46. Poison Hemlock ^^^ poison administered to Socrates. 1 The nomenclature for all these poisonous plants is here given according to Bulletin No. 86, and so much confusion exists that it would be a great desideratum if the names could be fixed and made reasonably uniform for the whole country by means of nature-study lessons in the public 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 Hodge, Clifton Fremont, 1859-. Boston and London, Ginn & Co.
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