. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. COMPOSITAE — UGUUFLORAE — CHICORY 759 Poisonous properties. When fed in large quantities it imparts a bitter flavor to milk and butter. It contains the bitter Chicory root is used as an adulterant of coffee. It contains the bitter glucoside chicorin C H O .. Fig. 439b. Dandelion {.Taraxacum officinale). 1, Single head during flowering, single head after flowering. 2, Single flower with corolla stamens and style. 3, Achenium. 4, Recep
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. COMPOSITAE — UGUUFLORAE — CHICORY 759 Poisonous properties. When fed in large quantities it imparts a bitter flavor to milk and butter. It contains the bitter Chicory root is used as an adulterant of coffee. It contains the bitter glucoside chicorin C H O .. Fig. 439b. Dandelion {.Taraxacum officinale). 1, Single head during flowering, single head after flowering. 2, Single flower with corolla stamens and style. 3, Achenium. 4, Recep- tacle and single achenium. (After Strasburger, Noll Schenck and Schimper). 2. Sonchus (Tourn.) L. Sow Thistle Annual or perennial herbs with alternate, mostly auriculate-clasping, entire dentate, lobed, or pinnatifid leaves with soft prickly margins; flower heads in corymbose or paniculate clusters; involucre bell-shaped; scales imbricated in several rows; receptacle flat and naked; achenes oblong, more or less flattened; 10-20-ribbed; pappus of soft white capillary bristles. About 45 species of the old world. Sonchus oleraceus L. Annual Sow-thistle Annual or perennial succulent herbs with leafy stems, smooth and glau- cous with corymbed or umbellate heads of yellow flowers. Stem leaves dentate, runcinate-pinnatifid, terminal segments large and triangular; heads numerous; flowers pale yellow, occurring in summer and fall. Distribution. Common in fields and waste places throughout North Amer- ica, except far northward. Also from Mexico to South America. Sonchus arvensis L. Field Sow-thistle A glabrous perennial, producing deep creeping root-stock, stem leafy> branched, basal leaves runcinate-pinnatifid, spiny-toothed, clasping by a heart- shaped base; flowers yellow; achenes transversely 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
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