Poisonous effects on animals 153 



Taxin is insoluble in water a fact which renders 

 useless all the experiments that have been made 

 with watery extracts of the leaves. Cornevin * 

 proved this by administering to a horse the liquid 

 from a prolonged maceration of the leaves, which 

 did not cause any untoward symptoms, while the 

 boiled leaves themselves produced death. 



1 Op. cit. supra. 



YEW-TREE AT KILLYLEIGH CASTLE, CO. DOWN. 

 From a photograph sent by COLONEL R. HAMILTON. 



