428 Mr. Cutler's Account of indigenous Vegetables, 



The milky juice stains linen a dark brown. The whole 

 shrub is, in a high degree, poisonous to certain constitutions. 

 The poison will be communicated by touching or smelling any 

 part of the shrub. In about forty-eight hours inflammation 

 appears on the surface of the skin, in large blotches ; principally 

 on the extremities, and on the glandulous parts of the body. 

 Soon after, small pustules rise in the inflamed parts, and fill 

 with watery matter, attended with very considerable burning 

 and itching. In two or three days the eruptions suppurate ; 

 after which the inflammation subsides, and the ulcers heal in a 

 short time. It operates, however, somewhat differently in dif- 

 ferent constitutions ; and what is singular, some constitutions 

 are incapable of being poisoned with it at all. It has been 

 observed, that persons of irritable habits are the most liable to 

 receive it. 



Rhusfoliis ternatis: foliolis petiolatis ovatis nudis integerrimis, 

 caule radicante. Syst. Nat. 



CREEPING IVY. Blossoms whitish. In meadows. June. 



The juice will stain linen a deep black. It is less poisonous 

 than the Poison Wood. 



The Abb6 Sauvages stained linen a black colour with the 

 juice of the Toxicodendron Caroliniarum foliis pinnatis, floribus 

 minimis herbaceis, which it retained, notwithstanding a great 

 number of washings in lye. The juice adhered, without the 

 least acrimony, to the cloth, with more force than any other 

 known preparation. The Abb^ Mazeas made trial of the juice 

 of the Hedera trifolia Canadensis. Corn. The instant, he says, 

 the cloth was exposed to the sun, it became the finest black he 

 had ever seen. It was put into a boil of soap, and after being 



dried, 



