106-3 
resin soluble in alcohol, another insoluble in alcohol; coloring-matter; albumen; 
gum, and sugar.* 
PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION.—The berries caused nausea, vomiting, and 
purging, in two children who ate of them, but whom I had no further chance to 
watch. Ina case reported+ of the effects attending the ingestion of about twenty- 
five berries, the following symptoms supervened: Sensation of nausea in the 
stomach not amounting to real sickness nor interfering with the appetite; vomit- 
ing of bile without retching; profuse evacuation of the bowels, consisting of their 
natural contents, diluted with an immense quantity of greenish liquid, attended 
with no pain or uneasiness; another similar but less profuse evacuation followed 
in about half an hour, after which the patient felt remarkably well, but as though 
he had lost ten or twelve pounds in weight. Following this, his appetite and 
digestion seemed much better than usual. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE 106. 
1. End of a flowering branch, Binghamton, N. Y., May sth, 1886. 
2. Under side of leaf-margin. 
3. Flower. 
4. Calyx. 
5. Stamen. 
6. Pistil. 
7. Fruiting branch. 
8. Nutlet. 
(2-6 and 8 enlarged.) 
* Tilden analysis, Your. Mat, Med., vol. 1, N. S., 329. + Bost, Med, and Surg. Four., 1833, 383. 
