22 POISONOUS PLANTS OF ALL COUNTRIES 

 ADONIS VERNALIS [Cultivated in Britain). 38. 



OX-EYE. 



Ranunculacece. — Herbaceous perennial; 1 ft. — Flowers 

 solitary, terminal; petals 10-12, oblong, rather denticulate. — 

 March. — yellow. — Leaves, lower ones abortive, upper sessile 

 and multifid with very entire lobes. 



Toxic Principle. — ADONIDIN, also contained in A. ammen- 

 sis» A. cupana. 



Bring corn-flag, tulips, and Adonis flower. — Johnson: " Shepherd^ s Song. " 

 ACONITUM NAPELLUS [British). 39. 



monk's hood — monk's cowl — COMMON ACONITE — WOLF's 

 BANE — VENUS' CHARIOT — BEAR'S FOOT — • HELMET 

 FLOWER — LUCKIE's MUTCH — FRIAR's CAP — SOLDIER' S CAP 

 — TURK'S CAP. 



RanunculacecB. — Lateral petals hairy inside. — Leaves 

 deeply 5-cleft; the lobes deeply cut. — Riversides; rare; 3-4 ft. 

 — perennial. — June; blue. [Fatalities.) 



Toxic Principle.— ACOmmiNE, 



Where the niched snow-bed sprays down its powdery fall, 

 There its dusky blue clusters the aconite spreads. 



Arnold: ''Switzerland.'' 



ACONITUM FEROX [Himalayan Mountains, India). 40. 



BISH POISON — INDIAN ACONITE — NEPAUL ACONITE. 



Ranunculacece. — Rootstock fleshy; tuberous; with lateral 

 tubers ; — 6 ft. ; erect ; stout ; branched above. — Leaves alternate ; 

 deeply cut into 5 irregularly indented lobes. — Flowers arranged 

 on long stalks, on long racemes. — Fruit of 5 f oUicles ; pubescent. 

 — Seeds black. — perennial. — indigo blue. 



Toxic Prmci^Ze.— PSEUD-ACONITINE, also contained in 

 A. arctophonum, A. cammarum, A. lagactonum, A. lycoctonum, 

 A. meloctonum, A. myoctonum, A. vulparia. 



No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist 

 Wdfs-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine. 



Keats: " Ode on Melancholy.' ' 



