. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 672 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS Kalmia poUfolia, Wang. Swamp laurel A low shrub with 2-edged branchlets, opposite nearly sessile leaves; oblong and white-glaucus beneath; margins revolute; flowers in terminal corymbs, few flowered; flowers J4 inch broad, purple; capsule depressed, glabrous, smooth. Distribution. In bogs, Newfoundland to Alaska, Connecticut to Pennsyl- vania, Michigan, Rocky Mountains, and California. Poisonous propert
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 672 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS Kalmia poUfolia, Wang. Swamp laurel A low shrub with 2-edged branchlets, opposite nearly sessile leaves; oblong and white-glaucus beneath; margins revolute; flowers in terminal corymbs, few flowered; flowers J4 inch broad, purple; capsule depressed, glabrous, smooth. Distribution. In bogs, Newfoundland to Alaska, Connecticut to Pennsyl- vania, Michigan, Rocky Mountains, and California. Poisonous properties. Both of these species are regarded as poisonous, the K. angustifolia especially so. The symptoms of poisoning are very much the same as those produced by the preceding Fig. 383. Branch ivy CLeucothoe Cates- baei): a, flowering branch; b, fruiting capsules. (Chesnut, U. S. Dept. Agr.) Leucothoe, D. Don Shrubs with alternate petioled leaves, and small, usually white, flowers in axillary or terminal spiked, racemes; sepals S, distinct; corolla cylindrical, 5- toothed; stamens 10, included; anthers naked, or the cells with 1 or 2 erect awns at the apex, opening by a pore; capsule depressed, more or less S-lobed, S-celled, S-valved; seeds mostly pendulous, minute. About 35 species, natives of the Western Continent; a few in 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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