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to one inch broad, in terminal corymbs, with clammy- 

 pubescent stalks. The seed-pods also are glandular. 



The Sheep Laurel or Lambkill, Kalmia angiistifolia L., 

 is found from Labrador to Ontario and southward on 

 hillsides, and in pastures and bogs. It is usually not 

 more than three feet high, and the leaves, smaller than 

 those of the mountain Laurel, are usually opposite or in 

 threes and are pale beneath. The lateral corymbs of 

 crimson flowers are slightly glandular. The flowers are 

 less than one-half inch in diameter. 



The Pale Laurel, Kalmia, polifolia, Wang., extends 

 across the northern part of the continent and stretches 

 south through all but the Prairie Provinces, being found 

 on mountains and in cold bogs. It is a straggling shrub, 

 not more than two feet high, with opposite, oblong leaves, 

 white-glaucous beneath and with revolute margins. The 

 terminal corymbs have each a few rose purple flowers 

 two-fifths to one inch broad. 



CARROT FAMILY Umbelliferae. 



WATER HEMLOCK Cicuta spp. 



Other Common Names: Wild Parsnip, Spotted Hem- 

 lock, Beaver Poison, Musquash Root, Cowbane, Spotted 

 Cowbane. 



Several species of the Water Hemlock grow commonly 

 in Canada. Parts of these are deadly in their effects. 

 This fact was well known to the Indian by whom the 

 root, the most poisonous part, was sometimes used for 

 self destruction, being very rapid in its action. Cases of 

 accidental human poisoning also occur. The roots have 

 a sweetish and not unpleasant taste, and a rather 

 parsnip-like odour. They are occasionally eaten by chil- 



