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iiu'l's Manual of Poisonous Plants, j^rccn berries of this plant are 

 stated to he ])ois()nous to man, hut the ripe herries have heen 

 eaten by Pammel and others with no ill effects. In South Dakota 

 the reviewer has often seen them eaten with no ill effects. In 

 fact, they are gathered and, after cooking, used for delicious pie 

 filling. On page 80 two questionable statements occur regarding 

 the castor bean, viz., " Flowers are borne in separate clusters as 

 pistillate and staminate," " Poultry have been poisoned by eating 

 the seeds." As well known, castor bean flowers are borne on 

 different i:)arts of the same flower spike. Poultry are stated to 

 be especially immune to castor bean poisoning. (Nat'l Dispens., 

 2d ed., p. 1 146; Pammel's Poisonous Plants, Pt. II, p. 594.) One 

 hardly refers to the horsetail (Equuetum) as "this fern plant" 

 (p. 39) in modern botanies. On page 74 loco-weed, Aragallus 

 lambcrti, is referred to as white-flowered in large areas in Colo- 

 rado, Wyoming and Montana, while such authorities as Rydberg, 

 Loulter and Nelson, Britton, and Gray describe the flowers of this 

 species as purplish or violet, " rarely white "" or " seldom yellow- 

 ish." Rydberg and Chesnut apparently regard the white-flowered 

 loco-weed as AragaJliiS'- spkatus (Hook.) Rdbg. The book is 

 attractively bound in limp cloth and the illustrations are good. 



Orland E. White. 



