. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. LEGUMINOSAB 537. Fig. 294. W^ld Senna (.Cassia Mary- landica). 1. Flower. 2. Pods. A plant growing in the Eastern Atlantic States as far south as North Carolina. Laxative like the Common Partridge pea. (Selby, Ohio Agrl. Exp. Stat.) inserted on the petals; ovary rudimentary, or none in the staminate flowers, sessile and many-ovuled in the pistillate; pod oblong, thick, large, and coriace- ous. Gymnocladus dioica (L.) Koch. Kentucky C
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. LEGUMINOSAB 537. Fig. 294. W^ld Senna (.Cassia Mary- landica). 1. Flower. 2. Pods. A plant growing in the Eastern Atlantic States as far south as North Carolina. Laxative like the Common Partridge pea. (Selby, Ohio Agrl. Exp. Stat.) inserted on the petals; ovary rudimentary, or none in the staminate flowers, sessile and many-ovuled in the pistillate; pod oblong, thick, large, and coriace- ous. Gymnocladus dioica (L.) Koch. Kentucky Coffee-tree A large tree with rough bark; leaves large and ample, 2-3 feet long; 7-15 leaflets, ovate or acute; glabrous or pubescent on the vems beneath; racemes many-flowered; flowers slender-pedicelled; seeds hard, J4 inch across, imbedded in a sweet, but disagreeable, and somewhat mucilaginous, material. Distribution. From Western New York to Pennsylvania, Eastern Nebraska, and Arkansas. Poisonous properties. Cases of poisoning are not uncommon. The alkaloid cyfisin C^j^Hj^N^O, a crystalline, rather bitter, and caustic substance which causes dilation of the pupil, is reported to have been found, according to Ches- nut, in the leaves and soft pulp of the fruit of the coffee bean. The pulp has long been used, when mixed with milk, to poison flies. In speaking of the symptoms and treatment. Prof Chesnut says: Few accidental cases of poisoning arise, but the pulp, in one instance, caused severe illness in a woman who ate a small quantity, mistaking it for that of the honey locust (Gleditsia tria- canthos), which is frequently eaten by children. The symptoms were not fully noted at the time, but are described from memory as conspicuously narcotic. The effect began within five minutes and lasted several hours. The treatment should probably be the same as that for laburnum, viz., emetics, stimulants, injections of coifee, and an alternately hot and cold douche to the head and chest
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