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to one inch broad, in terminal corymbs, with clammy- 
pubescent stalks. The seed-pods also are glandular. 
The Sheep Laurel or Lambkill, Kalmia angustifolia L., 
is found from Labrador to Ontario and southward on 
hillsides, and in pastures and bogs. It is usually not 
‘more than three feet high, and the leaves, smaller than 
those of the mountain Laurel, are usually opposite or in 
threes and are pale beneath. The lateral corymbs of 
crimson flowers are slightly glandular. The flowers are 
less than one-half inch in diameter. 
The Pale Laurel, Kalmia polifolia, Wang., extends 
across the northern part of the continent and stretches 
south through all but the Prairie Provinces, being found 
on mountains and in cold bogs. It is a straggling shrub, 
not more than two feet high, with opposite, oblong leaves, 
white-glaucous beneath and with revolute margins. The 
terminal corymbs have each a few rose purple flowers 
two-fifths to one inch broad. 
CARROT FAMILY—Umbelliferae. 
WATER HEMLOCK—Cicuta spp. 
Other Common Names: Wild Parsnip, Spotted Hem- 
lock, Beaver Poison, Musquash Root, Cowbane, Spotted 
Cowbane. : 
Several species of the Water Hemlock grow commonly 
in Canada. Parts of these are deadly in their effects. 
This fact was well known to the Indian by whom the 
root, ‘the most poisonous part, was sometimes used for 
self destruction, being very rapid in its action. Cases of 
accidental human poisoning also occur. The roots have: 
a sweetish and not unpleasant taste, and a rather 
parsnip-like odour. They are occasionally eaten by chil- 
