IRRITANT POISONS 71 



with silky hairs. — Corn-fields; common; 2-3 ft.; annual; July; 

 purple. 



Toxic Principle. — SMILACIN, also contained in Dianthus 

 plumarius, D. chinensis, D. caryophyllus, Anagallis arven- 

 sis, .ffisculus hipposcastinum, Quillaja saponaria, Gosophila 

 struthian. 



Truly she doth as far excdl our women nowadays 

 As doth the gilly-flower a weed. 

 And more a thousand ways. 



Hey wood: " A Praise of His Lady.'' 



ANACYCLUS PYRETHRUM {Levant). 131. 

 PELLiTORY — Alexander's foot — -Bertram — lung wort. 



Compositce. — Stem procumbent, or ascending; branched; 

 numerous. — Root long; tapering; vertical. — Leaves alternate; 

 oval in outline; deeply bipennatisect ; segments again 3 -fid. — 

 Glaucous. — Heads terminal; disk-flowers bisexual; yellow; 

 ray-flowers female; in a single row; white, pink below. — 

 Fruit obovoid: smooth; forming a short, scarious pappus. — 

 perennial . — Apr il- June . 



Toxic Principle. — INULIN. 



June-lightning the strong insect-ridder 

 To stop the fresh spinning. 



Browning: " Another Way of Love.'' 



ARNICA MONTANA (Mid. and South Europe). 132. 



MEDICINAL leopard's- BANE — MOUNTAIN TOBACCO — MOUNTAIN 



ALKANET. 



Compositce. — Rhizome black; 2 ins. — Flowering-stem 9 ins.; 

 erect; cylindrical. — Leaves opposite; few; sessile; oblong- 

 ovate; entire. — Flower-heads solitary on summit of stem, or, 

 rarely, by lateral branches. — Fruit linear-oblong; striate.— 

 Glaucous. — perennial; June and July; yellow. 



Toxic Principle. — ARNICIN, also contained in Dorinicum 

 pardalianches. 



The marigold that goes to bed with the sun. 

 And with him rises weeping. 



Shakespeare. 



