86 MEDICINxiL HEr.BS AND POISONOUS PLANTS 



bility; his face became pale, and he showed dilated 

 pupils. Finally, after treatment he recovered. 



Common Water Deopwoet 



fi 



This is also a poisonous herb, but considerably less so 

 than the preceding. Although vSomewhat similar in 



general habit the 

 leaves arc different, 

 being composed only 

 of a few narrow seg- 

 ments (fig. 52). The 

 roots also are dif- 

 ferent, consisting of 

 clustered fibres or 

 of oblono- tuberous 



Fig. r,2.- Comnioii AA^ater Dropwurt {(Eaanthe 



iht aZoaa) 



a, Cluster of Horets. b, Single floret 



structures. Finally, 

 the sepals of the 

 flowers are unusu- 

 ally lai-ge. Animals 

 refuse to eat the 

 plant. 



Cow Pahsxip or 

 HoGWEED {Herac- 

 leum Splondylinm). 

 — This coarse -look- 

 ing plant is very 

 familiar on waste 



hedges. 



and 



m 



grounds 

 It can be recognized at once from the leaf, 



which is large, broad, and rough; it is also pinnate, and 

 all the pinnae are stalkless except the basal pair (fig. 53). 

 Again, the fruit has a distinctive disk-like shape (fig. 48). 

 The smell of this coarse plant is sufficient to prevent 

 its being eaten, but a case is reported from Belgium of 

 workmen having been aflfected after collecting the plant 

 They had been employed to root it out from a cortaui 



