6 POISONOUS PLANTS OF ALL COUNTRIES 

 ERYTHROXYLUM COCA {South America). 10. 



COCA BUSH — SPADIC BUSH. 



Lirmcece.—A shrub; 2-4 ft.— Leaves closely placed; alter- 

 nate; shortly stalked; lanceolate; entire; glaucous beneath, 

 with a longitudinal arched line on either side of midrib. — 

 Flowers drooping; 3 to 4 in axils of leaves, pale yellow.— 

 Fruit oblong ovoid, smooth, red.— Seed filling the endocarp. 



Toxic Principle.— COCAINE. 



I don't care if it snows ! — Popular Catchword. 



LINUM CATHARTICUM {British). 11. 



PURGING FLAX — FATRY FLAX — DWARF FLAX — FAIRY LINT— 

 MILL-MOUNTAIN. 



Linacece. — Leaves opposite, obovate; upper ones lanceolate. 

 — Dry pastures; common; 4-6 ins.; annual; June-September; 

 white or yellowish. 



Toxic Principle.— LimiNARnSi. 



— the unripe flax 

 When, through its hat j -transparent stalks at eve. 

 The level sunshine glimmers with green light. 



Coleridge: " Fears in Sditvde.'^ 



DRYOBALANOPS CAMPHORA. 



DRYOBALANOPS AROMATICA {Sumatra and 



Borneo). 12. 



CAMPHOR TREE. 



Dipterocarpacece. — A gigantic tree; evergreen; 100 ft. — 

 Flowers yellowish red, in axillary panicles. — Leaves alt., 

 obtusely acuminate, involute, stipules convolute, elliptic, 

 entire, coriaceous, shining, deciduous, oblong, terminating the 

 branches with a point, veins running from midrib to margin. 

 — Flowers in racemes; calyx permanent, tubular, afterwards 

 forming elongated wings over fruit; ovary superior, three- 

 celled. — Fruit a drupe. — Aromatic. 



Toxic Principle.— BORNEOL, also contained in Rosmarindus 

 officinalis, Ledum palustre. 



Tuis capiUus albus est odoribus. — Horace: '' Epode xvii." 



