CHAPTER VIII. 

 POISONOUS WEEDS 



A great many people are ignorant of the presence of 

 poisonous plants growing in their neighborhood. In the 

 list given below are some of the most common species. 

 While some of these are found 

 more frequently than are 

 others, it is also true that some 

 in the list are more virulently 

 poisonous than others. In wet 

 places in the North, the cow- 

 bane is one of the most poison- 

 ous of weeds; the fleshy roots 

 with a pungent odor are eaten, 

 people mistaking them for 

 parsnips. The hemlock of the 

 ancients, a common plant in 

 the West, contains a deadly 

 poison. The seeds of Jimson 

 weed are also poisonous. The 

 nectar in the flowers of this 

 weed and of Wright's datura Fig'ssa. ^California poison 



have caused the death of chil- ivy (Rhus diversiloba). Many 

 r i r ~ n people poisoned by touching 



in T ' the plant. (U. S. Dept. Agrl.) 



In the list appended below, 



the more poisonous species are printed in bold face type. 

 Anemone or wind flower, black henbane, black locust, 

 black nightshade, bloodroot, bouncing bet, buck- 

 wheat, bunchflower, bulb-bearing hemlock, calycan- 

 thus, caper, celandine, choke cherry, cocklebur, com- 

 mon brake, common juniper, corn cockle, crimson 

 clover, crowfoot, cursed crowfoot, cypress spurge, 



