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your little hands blistered, especially if you met 

 with two kinds of buttercup which are noted for 

 producing that effect.* If you were to chew the 



HEBL-CHBISTOPHEB, OB BANEBEBBY. 



KONK'S-HOOD. 



(Aconitum napellus.') 



leaves or blossoms of the monk's-hood, you would 

 soon become dangerously ill." 



" Monk's-hood and larkspur are not at all like 

 buttercups," said Henry; "why are they put in 

 the same tribe ?" 



* Ranunculus flammula. R. sceleratus, 



