USEFUL WILD PLANTS 



funnel- shaped, white or violet flowers and thorny 

 seed-vessels adorning ill-smelling, branching plants, 



JiMSON-WEED 



(Datura ^Stramonium) 



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are familiar sights in fields and waste grounds from 

 the Mississippi eastward and from Canada to the 

 Gulf. The whole plant and particularly the seeds 



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