68 POISONOUS PLANTS OF ALL COUNTRIES 

 AQUILEGIA VULGARIS {British). 125. 



COLUMBINE. 



Ranunculacece. — Leaves 2-ternate, lobed. — Spur of petals 

 incurved. — Woods and pastures; 18 ins.; perennial; June; 

 purple or rose colour. 



Toxic Principle.— ACRID JUICE. 



The cdumbine in tawny often taken. 

 Is then ascribed to such as are forsaken. 



Browne: " Britannia's Pastorals.'^ 



BRYONIA DIOICA {British). 126. 



RED BERRIED BRYONY — COMMON WHITE BRYONY — WHITE 

 WILD VINE — WILD HOP — DEVIL'S TURNIP — GRAPE WORT — 

 MANDRAKE — MURRAIN BERRIES — TETTER BERRY. 

 ISLE OF WIGHT VINE. 



Cucurbitacece. — Stems climbing. — Leaves palmate, rough; 

 dioecious. — Hedges; common; perennial; May; green; Berries 

 red. {Fatalities.) 



Toxic Principle.— BRYONIN. 



. . . glossy -berried mandragore. 



Wilde: " Humanitad.^^ 



CUCUMIS COLOCYNTHIS {Central Europe). 127. 



BITTER APPLE — COLOCYNTH. 



Cucurbitacece. — Root woody; branched; yellow; crown 

 brown. — Stems prostrate; rough; branched. — Leaves alter- 

 nate; with lateral tendril; deeply cleft; undulated; on long 

 stalks.— Flowers unisexual; solitary; on long peduncles.— 

 Fruit globose; 3 J ins. ; smooth ; rarely longitudinally furrowed; 

 mottled; 1 -celled; pericarp hard, but thin; yellow.— Seeds 

 numerous; immersed in white pulp; J in.; compressed; brown. 

 — perennial. — pale yellow. 



Toxic Principle.— COLOCYSTUm, 



And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and 

 gathered thereof wild gourds. . . . They cried out, and said, . . . There is 

 death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof. — 2 Kings iv. 39-40. 



