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, 



Solanaceoe). Flowering and fruiting branch, '. (Chcsnut.) — Annual 



30-60 cm. 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), 

 lilj'-of-the-valley (Fig. 193), marsh-marigold (Fig. 184), 



