. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 478 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS Israelites who used them as incense on their altars. The oils derived from these plants are excellent antiseptics. Cinnamomum contains a volatile oil camphorin which is found in the roots and leaves; eugenol occurs in the leaves, stems and bark. Clove bark is derived from a small Brazilian tree (Dicypellium caryophyllatum) belonging to this family. The alligator pear or avocado {Persea gratissima), a na
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. 478 MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS Israelites who used them as incense on their altars. The oils derived from these plants are excellent antiseptics. Cinnamomum contains a volatile oil camphorin which is found in the roots and leaves; eugenol occurs in the leaves, stems and bark. Clove bark is derived from a small Brazilian tree (Dicypellium caryophyllatum) belonging to this family. The alligator pear or avocado {Persea gratissima), a native of the West Indies and tropical America, is much esteemed as a dessert fruit and in making salads. Rolfs has written of its successful culture in Florida. It is said that the oil is used extensively in America in soap manufacture. I,eaves of laurel (Laurus canariensis), native to Canary and Medeira Islands, and bay (L. nobilis) of southern Europe are used in culinary processes. Nectandra Rodioei contains berherin, which is identical with the pelosin Cj^H^, NO, of Cissampelos Pancina. The Indian laurel contains laurotetanin C .H NO. The California laurel (Umbelhdaria californica) is a strong local anaesthetic said to be irritant and acrid. The leaves, according to the Indians, will drive flies away. Sassafras Nees Trees with spicy aromatic bark; small mucilaginous twigs and foliage; flowers greenish yellow, naked in racemes; calyx 6-parted spreading, sterile, with 9 stamens, 3 inner with pair of glands; fertile flowers with rudiments of stamens; ovoid blue Fig. 249. Sassafras (Sassafras variifolium). A well known tree of the south which furnishes the sassafras oil and bark of commerce. (W. S. Dudgeon).. 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. Ced
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