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attractiveness, however, is not always a necessary element 

 of danger in this matter, ajipears from the following instance 

 which comes from New York. " Four children were playing 

 in one of the jiulilic parks of tlie city where jimson-wecnls 

 were growing luxuriantly. The hoys imagined themselves 

 Indians and roamed about antl ate parts of various plants. 

 Three of them ate the seeds of the ji)nson-we;'d.. One died 





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in a state of wild delirium; another was saved after heroic 

 treatment; . . . the third who ale liut few of the seeds was 

 but little atl'ected." Tliis miserable 'weeil has one of th(> worst 

 records among ];>iiisonous plants. iVIany lives are lost through 

 permitting this plant to grow in ]ilaees fre(|uented by children. 

 A few further exam]il(>s of ]ioisonous fruits and seeds r(>- 

 (|uire mention. The green berries of the whit(> jxitato, al- 

 though scarcely attractive to most ])eople, have been eaten 



