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INDEX 



"Pl^ck Bryony, 162 



Eaten as Asparagus, 163 



Fruit, poisonous, 163 



Used for bruises, 163 



Black Solanum, berries harmful, 



117 

 Blue-bell, 172 

 Box, 153 



Leaves used for hops, 153 



injurious to animals, 



153 



Broom, Common, 71 

 Broomrape, 140 

 Broom, Spanish, 75 

 Bryonia dioica (Bryony), 83 

 Bryony, Berries fatal to children, 

 84 



Root contains starch, 85 



Buttercup Family, 30 

 Buttercups, 35 ff. 



Irritant juice of, 36 fF. 



Buckthorn, 69 ff. 



Berries, effects of, 70 



Dye from, 70 



Buckwheat, effects on sheep, 143 

 Buxus (Box), 153 



Cabaret (Asarabacca), 146 

 Caltha paliistris{^\zx^\i Marigold), 



40 

 Ca7npamda, sp., 107 

 Canterbury Bell, 107 

 Caprifoliace^, 102 

 Carrot, Wild, 99 

 Caryophyllace^, 58 

 Cascara Sagrada, 70 

 Castor-oil, 154 

 Seeds, fatal to children, 



etc., 154 

 Celandine, 56 



A drastic purgative, 57 



Celery, 93 



Used green in Malta, 93 



Ceres and poppies, 52 

 Chelidonhim majus (Celandine), 56 



Cherry Laurel, 81 



Leaves dangerous, 82 



Christmas Rose, 42 



Cicuta virosa (Water- Hemlock or 



Cowbane), 93 

 " Circumscissile " dehiscence, 126 

 " Cleistogamous," 63 

 Clematis, effects of juice, 33 

 Clematis Vitalba (Travellers' Joy), 



31 



Coal-plants, 157 



" Cohesion," 23 



Colchicine, 174 



Colchicnm autumnale (Meadow 



Saffron or Autumn Crocus), 173 



Bulbs poisonous, 135 



Gout-pills, 175 



Columbine, 47 



Tincture of seeds dangerous, 



48 

 Composite (Composites), 104 

 Conifers, 156 



Conitini mactilatum (Hemlock), 90 

 Convallaria majalis (Lily of the 



Valley), 171 



CONVOLVULACE^, II4 



Convolvtilns arvensis (Lesser 



Bindweed), 141 

 Cordials, etc., dangers of, 53 

 Corn-cockle, 58 

 Coronilla^ sp., 74 

 Counterblaste, King James', 129 

 Cowbane, 93 

 Cow- wheat, 139 

 Bread contaminated 



with seed of, 139 

 Crocus, Autumn (Colchicum), 173 

 Croton-oil, 154 {note) 

 Crowfoot, Water, harmless, 35 

 Crown Imperial, 170 

 Cryptogams, 156, 182 

 Cuckoo-pint, 165 



CUCURBITACE^, 83 

 CUPULIFER^, 155 



Cuscuta (Dodder), 115 



