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MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS 



pod linear with a long stalk (stipe) many seeded; the receptacle bearing a 

 gland beyond the stipitate ovary. A small genus of about 75 species, mainly 

 tropical. 



Cleome serrulata Pursh. Rocky Mountain Bee Plant 



An annual, from 1-3 feet high, with digitate, 3-foliolate leaves and leafy, 

 bracteate racemes; calyx 4-cleft, petals 4, cruciform, short clawed, and rose- 

 colored ; pods linear, many seeded. 



Distribution. Widely distributed west of Missouri, from the Canadian 

 Rockies to Kansas, Mexico, Arizona and Utah, eastward occasionally from 

 Minnesota to Illinois. The plant is regarded with great favor as a bee plant. 



Cleome lutea Hook. Yellow Cleome 



This plant is like the preceding, but the leaves are 5-foliolate or the 

 upper 3-foliolate, leaflets oblong or oblong-lanceolate, entire, stalked or sessile; 

 flowers yellow ; pod linear, stipe longer than the pedicel. 



Distribution. In dry soil from Nebraska to Washington and Arizona. The 

 former species is particularly conspicuous west of the 100th meridian. 



Poisonous and Medical properties. These plants are not generally placed 

 with the poisonous plants, although they contain the same pungent principles 

 that members of the Mustard family have. They are seldom eaten by stock. 



Fig. 259. Rocky Mountain 

 Bee Plant {Cleome serrulata). 

 A plant with pungent proper- 

 ties. (Ada Hayden). 



Fig. 260. Yellow Cleome 

 (Cleome lutea). Common in 

 the West. (Ada Hayden). 



