. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. LOGANIACEAE — NUX VOMICA FAMILY 685 cymose clusters; calyx of 4 to 5 parted sepals; corolla gamopetalous, 4 to S parted; stamens as many as the lobes of the corolla or alternate with them; fruit follicles or drupes. About 30 genera and 400 species, in warmer regions, several of them very poisonous. Strychnos Niix-vomica, native to India and the islands of southern Asia, is a small straggling tree, in its native country known as the K
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. LOGANIACEAE — NUX VOMICA FAMILY 685 cymose clusters; calyx of 4 to 5 parted sepals; corolla gamopetalous, 4 to S parted; stamens as many as the lobes of the corolla or alternate with them; fruit follicles or drupes. About 30 genera and 400 species, in warmer regions, several of them very poisonous. Strychnos Niix-vomica, native to India and the islands of southern Asia, is a small straggling tree, in its native country known as the Koochia tree. The fruit resembles an orange, but with a hard rind and numerous flat. Fig. 394. Strychnos (.Strychnos Crevauxiana). A curare plant of French Guiana. (After Faguet.). 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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