BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POISONOUS PLANTS 



By Harriette S. Kellogg 



In this bibliography we have included such modern works bearing upon the 

 subject of poisonous plants as are more easily accessible to the student, but 

 to make this list more complete many titles of books by older writers have 

 been added. These works are of interest not only from an historical point of 

 view, but also from an artistic standpoint because many of them are hand- 

 somely illustrated. This is particularly true of the works of Brand and Ratze- 

 Durg, Berge and Riecke, Godet, Bulliard, Dietrich, Henry, Hegetschweiler, 

 Otto, and Miquel which were published many years ago. 



The bibliography also contains the more important articles published by the 

 various experiment stations and by the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture besides a long list of rather recent papers appearing in technical chemical 

 journals and in professional journals of medicine, veterinary medicine, and 

 pharmacy. However, this bibliography is by no means complete so far as these 

 technical journals are concerned, but from the papers indicated in the bibliog- 

 raphy the student can easily find further literature. 



Miss Kellogg has attempted to make a subject catalogue covering a great 

 many different topics such as the sale of poisons, general treatises on poisonous 

 plants, vegetable toxicologv', poisons from Abrus, vegetable alkaloids, hydro- 

 cyanic acid, immunity, lupinosis, ricinus, poisonous seeds, geographical papers, 

 poisons from a legal standpoint, pellagra, antidotes, etc. 



While it would be impossible to indicate a reference to every species, the 

 catalogue of the poisonous plants of the world indicates, to some extent, where 

 the species was discussed. We have had to omit from the catalogue refer- 

 ences to many popular treatises such as Lehmann's "Giftpflanzen mit besonderer 

 Berijcksichtigung der wirksamen Stoffe," and the works of Godet, Vicat, 

 Henslow's "Poisonous Plants in Field and Garden" and the "Giftpflanzenbuch" 

 by Berge and Riecke. The later as well as the earlier treatises, frequently 

 refer to the literature where the species is mentioned as being poisonous, .^n 

 example of this is found in Hellcbonis nigcr, Berge and Riecke give seventeen 

 references where the plant is mentioned as poisonous; eleven references are 

 cited in regard to Oleander, and five upon Tccoma radicaiis, showing that many 

 of these plants have passed as poisonous for a considerable length of time. 



Of peculiar and local popular treatises Germany has contributed more 

 than any other country. The treatment of ihc poisonous plants in books such 

 as Goeppert's "Ueber die Giftige Pflanzen Schlesiens," and Krause's "Studies 

 of Poisonous Plants, in the German Colonies," aid materially in determining 

 the distribution of certain plants. The United States has done something along 

 this line, especially through its Department of Agriculture. The publications of 

 Coville and Chesnut, are excellent illustrations of this. Popular accounts in 

 such treatises as that by Miss Huntington are helpful. The subject of poison 

 ivy probably has been treated more exhaustively than any other subject indi- 

 cated. Dr. Warren has recently published a long list of papers on this subject, 

 and he shows especially how popular impressions get into current literature 



