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POISONOUS PLANTS 



Nothing is known of any injurious effects having 

 taken place ; but they would probably be much 

 the same as in the following. 



Celandine {Chelidonium inajus^ Fig. 14). — This 



Fig. 14. Chelidonium majus ; Celandine. 



is common in hedges about villages, and in stony 

 places. It has much-divided leaves, small four- 

 petalled yellow flowers and long pods ; the seeds 

 having a small crest-like appendage. 



Having been an old medicinal drug-plant of the 



