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NATURE STUDY AND LIFE 



Red Buckeye and Common Horse-Chestnut, yEsctihis pavia 

 and hippocastaniim. — Both contain active poisons in their 

 seeds and fresh leaves and twigs. Fish may be stupefied 

 by stirring the crushed nuts and twigs into small pools. 

 Poisoning may occur from eating these parts, but the 

 bitter taste serves, in general, as a sufficient safeguard. 



Broad-Leaf Laurel, Kahnia latifolia. — (Laurel, north of 

 Maryland, ivy, south of Maryland, mountain laurel, sheep 

 laurel, poison laurel, wood laurel, small laurel, high laurel, 



Fig. 49. L^ATURA 

 Beautiful but dangerous. (Pliotograph by Charles Irving Rice) 



American laurel, poison ivy, ivy bush, ivy wood, big ivy, 

 calico bush, spoonwood, kalmia, wicky.) Laurel is too well 

 known to need description. It is our most beautiful native 



