. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 442 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS 40 species in Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. Saponaria officinalis is fre- quently cultivated in old gardens. The mucilaginous juice forms a lather with water and is valuable for taking grease spots out of woUen cloth. Saponaria Vaccaria L. Cow herb A glabrous annual from 1-2 feet high with opposite ovate lanceolate leaves; flowers in corymbed cymes; calyx 5-angled, enlarged and angled in fruit; pet
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 442 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS 40 species in Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. Saponaria officinalis is fre- quently cultivated in old gardens. The mucilaginous juice forms a lather with water and is valuable for taking grease spots out of woUen cloth. Saponaria Vaccaria L. Cow herb A glabrous annual from 1-2 feet high with opposite ovate lanceolate leaves; flowers in corymbed cymes; calyx 5-angled, enlarged and angled in fruit; petals pale red. Cow herb is another important constituent of "cockle" in wheat screenings, and like the preceding weed has been largely spread by means of wheat culture. Distribution. Common in Europe; found in wheat fields of the east and as far west as Missouri, Kansas, the Rocky Mountain region, and Pacific Coast, and wheat regions of the northwest. According to Sohn, it contains the substance saponin, C„,Hg^O,. a neutral sharp, amorphous substance, having a burning taste and producing a violent sensation. The toxic substance is partially removed by Fig. 218. Boancing Betty (.Saponaria oMcinalis). A branch with flowers. The double flowered form is some- times cultivated for orna- mental purposes. (Charlotte M. King.) 6. Stellaria h. Chickweed Tufted herbs with white flowers in cymose clusters; sepals 4-5, deeply 2- cleft, sometimes none; stamens free, 10 or fewer; styles 3, rarely 4 or S; capsule ovoid 1-celled, several to many seeded. Stellaria media (I,.) Cyrill. Common Chickweed A nearly smooth annual or winter annual, decumbent or ascending; leaves ovate or oval, the lower on hairy petioles; flowers white in terminal leafy cymes or solitary in the axils; sepals oblong, longer than the 2-parted petals; stamens Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration an
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