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MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS 



and one died, displaying the following symptoms: Intense onion odor, tucking up of 

 flanks; constipation in some; purging freely in others; one vomited abundantly; another 

 very ill, grunted, was much constipated, staggered in walking, was very tender in loins, 

 temperature 103, urine dark and smelling of onions. Treatment: Feeding with soft 

 food and hay. Large doses of linseed oil. One animal that was very ill got also extract 

 of belladonna and carbonate of soda. All but one of the animals recovered. At the 

 autopsy of the dead one, the rumen was found inflated and also the bowels. Liver enlarged 

 and of light color. Kidneys dark green and with offensive dor. Rumen contained 

 large quantity of onions and grass. The whole carcass and organs smell of onions. 



5. Convallaria L. Lily of the Valley 



A low smooth herb with horizontal root-stocks; flowers white in a one 

 sided raceme; stamen 6; ovary 3-celled; berry globose. A genus with one 

 species. 



Convallaria majalis, L. Lily of the Valley 



A smooth perennial herb with horizontal root-stocks and 2 or sometimes 3 

 oblong leaves; flowers in racemes; perianth bell shaped, white, 6-lobed, stamens 

 6, inserted on the base of the perianth; ovary 3-celled, 4-6 ovules in each cell; 



Fig. 165. Lily-of- the- Valley 

 (Convallaria majalis). A well 

 known cultivated plant possessing 

 poisonous properties similar to 

 those of Foxglove. U. S. Dept. 

 Agr. 



Fig. 166. False Aloe (Agave 

 I'irginica). A plant of the South- 

 ern United States. 



