. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 472 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS Berberis repens Lindl. Trailing Mahonia. A smooth, trailing shrub, 1-4 ft. high, leaves petioled, pinnate; leaflets 3-7, ovate, acute; flowers several in a raceme, yellow; persistent bracts; fruit globose, bluish purple. Distribution. From Western Nebraska to Arizona, and British Columbia, Northwest Pacific Coast from Washington to California. Berberis Aquifolium Pursh. Oregon Grape. A low shrub 2-10 fe
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 472 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS Berberis repens Lindl. Trailing Mahonia. A smooth, trailing shrub, 1-4 ft. high, leaves petioled, pinnate; leaflets 3-7, ovate, acute; flowers several in a raceme, yellow; persistent bracts; fruit globose, bluish purple. Distribution. From Western Nebraska to Arizona, and British Columbia, Northwest Pacific Coast from Washington to California. Berberis Aquifolium Pursh. Oregon Grape. A low shrub 2-10 feet high, leaflets S-9 oblong ovate, spinulose dentate above; flowers yellow in racemes and terminal clusters; fruit globose, dark in color. Distribution. Idaho to the Rocky Mountains. Poisonous properties. Both Berberis repens and B. Aquifolium contain the alkaloids berberin, oxyacanthin Cj^gH^^NOg, and berbamin C^gH^gNO+ZHjO. Prof. Schaffner reports that the berries of the trailing Mahonia are in- jurious to birds. When eaten fresh they are emetic and Fig. 242. Oregon Grape (Berberis Aquifolium). Berries are said to be poisonous to birds. (Ada Hayden). MenishJrmaceab. Moonseed Family Woody plants with alternate lobed or entire leaves, climbing without stipules; flowers small, dioecious, in panicled racemes or cymose clusters; sepals 4-12; petals 6; fewer, or more; stamens of the same number or fewer; fruit a 1- seedcd drupe; embryo long, curved endosperm scanty. About 300 species mainly in the tropics. Moonseed (Menispermum canadense) is a beautiful native climber of the North with black drupes and contains menispin. The Carolina moonseed {,Coc- xulus carolinus) is common in the South. Fish poison made from Anamirta. 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),
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