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The leaves will bring from 24 to 8 cents per pound, and stramonium 
seeds from 3 to 7 cents per pound. 
Purple thorn-apple. 
The purple thorn-apple, technically known as Datura tatula, is very 
similar to the jimson weed, possesses the same properties, and is dis- 
Fig. 27.—Leaves, flower, and capsules of jimson weed. 
tinguished from it merely by its reddish stems and purplish flowers. 
The leaves and seeds may be gathered with those of the jimson weed. 
POISON HEMLOCK. 
Conium maculatum L. 
Other common names.—Spotted parsley, St. Bennet’s herb, bad-man’s 
oatmeal, heck-how, wode whistle, cashes, bunk, poison parsley, spotted 
cowbane. (Fig. 28.) 
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