INDEX 



287 



Persea gratissima, 236 



Persian insect powder, 231 



Persimmon, 233 



Petiolate, having a petiole, or leaf 



stalk. 



Petroselinum hortense, 229 

 Pfaff, Dr. Franz, work of, 82 

 Phallin, 19, 20, 36 

 Pharmacology, 41; work on, 69 

 Phaseolunatin, 71 



Phaseolus, 184; aconitifolius, 207; acuti- 

 folius, 207; angularis, 207; aureus, 

 207; calcaratus, 207; lunatus, 206; 

 as a poisonous plant, 71; multiflorus, 

 207; mungo, 207; vulgaris, 206 

 Phleum pratense, 131 

 Phoenix dactylifera, 233 

 Phormium tenax, 230 

 Phyllotaxy, the arrangement of leaves on 



the stem. 



Physostigma venenosum, 185 

 Phytobezoars, 3 

 Phytolaccin, 56 

 Phytolaccotoxin, 57 

 Phy to toxins, 19 

 Picropodophyllin, 65 

 Pictou cattle-disease in Canada, no; in 



New Zealand, no 

 Pigweed, 252 

 Pilse marinae, 4 

 Pilocarpin administered, 100 

 Pine-apple, 235 

 Pine-apple weed, 244 

 Pinnatifid, pinnately cleft, said of the 



margins of leaves. 

 Pistil, the central female organ of the 



flower, consisting of carpels. 

 Pistillate, of or pertaining to the pistil. 

 Pisum, 184 



Pisum sativum var. arvense, 199 

 Pita, 230 



Placentation, the attachment of the ovules 

 or seeds to the inner wall, or central 

 column of the ovary, or fruit derived 

 therefrom. 

 Plane trees, injury by leaf hairs of, 6 



Plantago lanceolata, 213, 254; as a rem- 

 edy for poison ivy, 82 

 Plantain, 235 

 Plum, 232 

 Plumose, plume-like; feather-like, beset 



with hairs like a brush. 

 Pneumomycosis, 2 

 Poa compressa, 135; pratensis, 133 

 Pod, 183 

 Podophyllin, 65 

 Podophyllotoxin, 65 

 Podophyllum peltatum as a poisonous 



plant, 64 

 Pohl, work of, 89 

 Poinciana regia, 185 



Poison dogwood, 81; elder, 81; hemlock, 

 90; ivy, 80, 254; o'ak, 81; sumach, 81 

 Poisoning and weather, 14; by Amanita 

 phalloides, symptoms of, 36; by 

 muscarin, symptoms of, 34 

 Poisonous fungi, classification of, 37 

 Poisonous plants as impurities, 15 

 Poisons acting on the brain, 10; acting on 

 the heart, n; on the spinal cord, n; 

 classification of, 9; conditions in- 

 fluencing the formation of, 12; sea- 

 sonal variation of, 13 

 Poke, 55 

 Pollantin, 114 

 Pollen in grasses, 128 

 Pollination, the act by which the pollen 

 is transferred from anthers to stigma 

 of the same, or another flower. 

 Pollinosis, in 

 Polish wheat, 165 

 Polygonum hydropiper, 255; sachalinense, 



212 



Pomelo, 235 



Poppies as poisonous plants, 66 

 Portulaca oleracea, 247, 255 

 Posidonia oceanica, 4 

 Post-mortem, an examination of the body 



after death; an autopsy. 

 Post-mortem of animals killed by rag- 

 wort, in 

 Potato, 225; as a poisonous plant, 102 



