142 TO PRESERVE FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 



POISONOUS PLANTS. 



1. Plants with five stamens and one pistil, with a dull-co - 

 ored lurid corol, and of a nauseous sickly smell, always po - 

 sonous. As, tobacco, thorn-apple, henbane, nightshade. 



2. Umbelliferous plants of the aquatic kind, and a nauseoi s 

 scent, are always poisonous. As, water-hemlock, cow-pars 

 ley. But if the smell is pleasant, and they grow on dry lane!, 

 they are not poisonous. As, fennel, dill, coriander. 



3. Plants with labiate corols, and seeds in capsules, fr&amp;lt; - 

 quently poisonous. As, snap dragon, fox-glove. 



4. Plants from which issue a milky juice on being broken, 

 are poisonous, unless they bear compound flowers. A^, 

 milk-weed, dogbane. 



5. Plants having any appendage to the calyx or corol, ai;d 

 eight or more stamens, generally poisonous. As, colum 

 bine, nasturtion. 



Plants with few stamens, not poisonous, except the num 

 ber be five ; but if the number be twelve or more, and tLe 

 smell nauseous, heavy and sickly, the plants are generally 

 poisonous. 



TO PRESERVE FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 



Place the specimens in a close, dark room; when the 

 plants are nearly dry, press them, in small quantities envel 

 oped in paper, till the oil appears on the surface, which you 

 will know by its discoloring the paper ; then do them up in 

 clean paper bags, and they will retain their fragrance, color, 

 and medicinal properties, for years, 



