POISONOUS PLANTS IJI 



seedsmen's catalogues, for I have seen the fingers 

 of little children terribly scarred from picking it. 

 It is also a menace to bee-keepers, for a little 

 of the pollen will render honey uneatable. 



Several of the Goldenrods and Ragweeds have 

 pollen which, when inhaled, has an irritating effect 

 upon those liable to hay fever and catarrh ; and 

 the Swamp Sunflower of our waterways has earned 

 its common title of Sneezeweed from causing, by 

 its pollen and dried blossoms, an irritation so mis- 

 chievous as to make it akin to a poison. 



Every one knows this cheerful, Sunflower-like 

 plant, with its thick, lance-shaped leaves, the 

 flowers in a tufted center surrounded with toothed, 

 wide -ended yellow rays, for it follows the water- 

 ways from Canada to the Gulf, and finds enough 

 moisture to sustain it even in Arizona. Cattle 

 may be affected by eating the young plants, or the 

 flowers dried in hay, the result being a sort of 

 asthmatic giddiness, and sometimes, in the case of 

 young animals, death from convulsions. 



THE TRIBE OF "TASTE NOT" 



Those plants should rank as most important 

 that directly threaten the life of man. Among 



