POISONOUS PLANTS. 



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

 lurid corol, and of a nauseous sickly smell, always poisonous. 

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



2. Umbel life rout plants of the aquatic kind and a nauseous 

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

 But if the smell is pleasant, and they grow in dry land, they are 

 not poisonous. As, fennel, dill, coriander. 



3. Plants with labiate corols, and seeds in capsules, frequently 

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



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

 poisonous, unless they bear compound flowers. As, milk-weed, 

 dogbane. 



5. Plants having any appendage to the calyx or corol, and 

 eight or more stamens, generally poisonous. As, columbine, 

 nastnrtion. 



Plants with few stamens, not poisonous, except tho number 

 be five; but if the number be twelve or more, and the 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 enveloped in pa- 

 per, 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 proper- 

 ties, for years 



