42 POISONOUS PLANTS. 



JUNIPERUS SABINE {Cultivated in Britain). 



SAVIN. 



Coniferm. — Evergreen shrub (under cultivation may become a 

 tree of 20ft.) ; compact. — Branches numerous ; much divided. 

 — Leaves opposite, or in 3's ; closely packed ; of 2 forms (l,) 

 on the elongated branches more distantly placed ; triangular ; 

 subulate ; (2,) on the smaller lateral branches rhoraboidal ; 

 with a central gland. —Flowers small ; dioecious ; male calkins ; 

 female cones.— Fruit berry-like; formed by enlargement and 

 coalescence of the scales ; on drooping stalk ; purple with 

 whitish bloom. — Seeds 1-3 ; ovoid. — May and June ; greenish. 



Toxic principle.— Q\li OF SAYIN. 

 CLAVICEPS PURPUREA {Central Europe). 



ERGOT OF RYE FUNGUS, — SPURRED RYE. — EARED RYE. 



Fungi. — (The Sclerotium of the Fungus, produced between 

 the pales, and replacing the grain of .r^ira/^ cereale.) Subcylin- 

 drical ; tapering; curved i-l}in. ; longitudinally furrowed ; 

 commencing as a sticky mycelium ; ripening and falling to 

 ground in July. (Also parasitic on ovary of various grasses ) 

 — Thallophyte. — Bienn. — Early summer ; black. 



Toxic principles. — CORNUTINE, SPHACELINIC ACID, 

 EBGOTINIC ACID. 



RUTA GRAVEOLENS {Cultivated in Britain). 



COMMON RUE. — COUNTRYMAN'S TREACLE. — AVE GR.\CE. — 

 HERB OF GRACE.— HERB OF REPENTANCE. 



Rutacece. — Herbaceous shrub ; 2^ft. — Leaves alternate ; 

 persistent ; compound ; lower tri-pinnate ; upper pennate ; 

 leaflets linear-oval. — Inflorescence a terminal ; corymbrosc, 

 irregularly trichotomous cyme. Flowers on long stalks ; petals 

 alternating with, and exceeding sepals. — Fruit hard ; rough ; 

 roundish ; 5 lobed. — Seeds ovoid-angular ; testa black ; rough. 

 — Perenn. — Greenish-yellow. 



Toxic principles.— Q\\^ OF RUE, EUODIC ACID. 



