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states that the chemistry of the plant has not yet been worked out, but that all 

 parts are poisonous, the root especially deadly. Lehmann states, however, 

 that the first species is not as poisonous as was formerly supposed; sheep and 

 hogs eat it, although it is poisonous to horses. In the latter it is said to produce 

 ])aralysis of the Iiind legs. Bernla crccta of Europe and North America is poison- 

 ous, especially the root. It is a smooth aquatic perennial, with compound simple 

 pinnate leaves: leaflets linear oblong, serrate to cut-toothed: tlowers white, and 

 fruit globose. 



In Australia according to Maiden the Apium leptophyllniii when grown in 

 damp soils is poisonous. The wild parsnip of that country is one of the most 

 poisonous plants of Australia, no antidote to it being known. The Chaerophyl- 

 htrn teuinlum of Europe causes colic and stupor. The parsley is not ordinarily 

 considered poisonous but is said to be injurious to birds. The gum resin aiii- 

 iiioniac found on the stem of Dorcma Ajiiiitoniacmn is acrid. The resin re- 

 sults from the sting of an insect. The genus ferula from which Asafoetida i- 

 (lerived causes haematnri.i and bleeding at the nose. 



Fig. 370. Creeping Watei- 

 parsnip (Berula ciecta). Very 

 poisonous, (.\fter Fitch.) 



Genera of I 'inb el It ferae 



I'lowers yellow " Pastinaca 



I'lowers white or greenish. 



Fruit bristly, winged 9 Daucus. 



I'rnit, not bristly, winged. 



I'Vuit winged, dorsally flatlcned. 



Flowers greenish 5 Angelica. 



l""lowers white. 



Leaves pinnate or ternate, chistered, tuberous roots. .6 Oxypolis. 



Loaves ternately cumpound. root not tuberous 8 Ileracleum. 



l-'ruit wingless flattened dorsally or laterally 4 Aethusa. 



I-'ruit ovoid or oval. 

 Flowers white. 



Biennial plant 1 Conium 



Perennial, roots iisiinllv fascicled. 



