208 MEDICINAL AND POISONOUS PLANTS 
much of the honey crop is rendered unfit for use. The laurels 
just referred to are also believed to yield poisonous honey. 
Among the poisonous plants already mentioned, those 
having flowers which must be regarded as dangerously 
attractive to children are: poppies, tobacco, belladonna, 
Fig. 198.—Black Nightshade (Solanum nigrum, Nightshade Family, 
Solanacee). Flowering and fruiting branch, 4. (Chesnut.)—Annual 
30-60 em. tall; leaves smooth; flowers white; fruit a black berry. 
Native home, Eurasia and America. 
monkshood, pokeweed, jimson-weed, locust, and elder. To 
these examples may be added the following which have 
shown themselves similarly dangerous: foxglove (Fig 192), 
lily-of-the-valley (Fig. 193), marsh-marigold (Fig. 184), 
