76 POISONOUS PLANTS OF ALL COUNTRIES 

 SEDUM ALBUM (British). 



WHITE STONE CROP — WORM GRASS. 



Crassulacece. — Leaves scattered, cylindrical, fleshy. — 

 Flowers in many-branched panicles. — Rocks and walls; 

 2-4 ins. — perennial; July; white; anthers red. 



Toxic Principle. — ^ACRID JUICE, also contained in S. 

 rhodola. 



Foul standergrass, from me and mine 

 I banish thee. 



Beaumont and Fletcher: " Clorin's Song.'*'' 



DIONCEA MUSCIPULA {Cultivated in Britain). 143. 



FLY CATCHER — VENUS 'S FLY TRAP. 



Droseracece. — Dwarf herbaceous perennial; 6 ins. — Flower 

 white, in terminal corymbs ; July and August. — Leaves radical 

 on long footstalks, which are dilated at the top into a 2-lobed 

 irritable limb, beset with one row of long hairs on the margin 

 folding together in the manner of the teeth of a trap. Move- 

 ment takes place on irritating the bristles at the centre of the 

 lobe. 



Toxic Principle. — ^ACRID JUICE, also contained in species of 

 Pinguicula, Nepenthes, Sarracena. 



A sensitive 'plant in a garden grew, 

 And the young winds fed it with tender dew : 

 And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light. 

 And dosed them beneath the kisses of night. 



Shelley: " The Sensitive Plant.'"' 



CROCUS SATIVUS {British). 144. 



SAFFRON CROCUS — COMMON SAFFRON PLANT. 



Iridacece. — Stigma hanging out of the flower in three deep 

 linear segments. — Meadows; 6-8 ins.; perennial; September- 

 November; purple. {Fatalities.) 



Toxic Principle. — CROCIN, also contained in C. luteus and 



others. 



The boundless waving grass-plains stretch, 

 Thick-starred with saffron . . . 



Arnold: " The Strayed Reveller.'" 



