3-4 
Krapf (of. cit.) relates a case in which the plant was used internally, giving 
the following serious symptoms and result: Contortion of the eyes; convulsions 
of the facial muscles, outer parts of the abdomen, and the limbs; pain, swelling, 
redness, and bleeding of the gums; peeling off of the cuticle and cracking of the 
tongue; ptyalism; hiccough; complete inactivity of the stomach, with horrid pains 
and fits of anxiety; slight fainting turns; all followed by cold sweat and death. 
The symptoms caused by this drug, as detailed in Aden’s Encyclopedia of Pure 
Materia Medica,# as well as the cases reported above, show this drug to be an 
acrid irritant poison, both to the mucous membranes with which it comes in con- 
tact, and to the nerves themselves. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE 3. 
1. Whole plant (a small specimen), Salem, Mass., July 20th, 1885. 
2. Sepal. 
3. Petal. 
4. Carpel. 
5. Section of same. 
(2-5 enlarged.) 
* Vol, viii, 270-77. 
