586 REPORT OF STATE GEOLOGIST. 



ing are not so great as in the relatively wild regions of the West, still 

 there is an annual loss from this cause amounting to some thousands 

 of dollars. Farmers should know the following plants and see that 

 they are exterminated in lands used for pasture. The lists have been 

 compiled from the Preliminary Catalogue of Plants Poisonous to 

 Stock, by V. K. Chestnut, of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture. All of the forms included occur in greater or less abundance 

 in the State. The character of soil in which they grow is indicated 

 in the catalogue proper. 



I. PLANTS KNOWN TO BE POISONOUS TO STOCK. 



American white hellebore. (Veratrum viride Ait.) 



Slender nettle. (Urtica gracilis Ait.) 



Poke weed. (Phytolacca decandra L.) 



Corn cockle. (Agrostemma Githago L.) 



Common larkspur. (Delphinium tricorne Michx.) 



Field larkspur. (Delphinium consolida L.) 



Cursed crowfoot. (Ranunculus sceleratus L.) 



Celandine. (Chelidonium majus L.) 



Wild cherry. (Prunus serotina Ehrh.) 



Rattle box. (Crotalaria sagittalis L.) 



Locust tree. (Robinia Pseudacacia L.) 



Climbing bittersweet. (Gelastrus scandens L.) 



Water hemlock. (Cicuta maculata L.) 



Poison hemlock. (Conium maculatum L.) 



Milk weed. (Asclepias Syriaca L.) 



Jimson weed. (Datura Stramonium L.) 



Jimson weed. (Datura Tatula L.) 



Black nightshade. (Solanum nigrum L.) 



Sneeze weed. (Helenium autumnale L.) 



II. PLANTS PROBABLY POISONOUS TO STOCK. 



Bracken fern. (Pteris aquilina L.) 



Yew. (Taxus minor (Michx.) Britton.) 



Lily of the valley. (Convallaria majalis L.) 



White baneberry. (Aetata alba (L.) Mill.) 



Red baneberry. (Aetata rubra (Ait.) Willd.) 



Wind flower. (Anemone quinquefolia L.) 



Bulbous crowfoot. (Ranunculus bulbosus L.) 



Tall crowfoot. (Ranunculus acris L.) 



Large flowered yellow flax. (Linum rigidum Pursh.) 



Spurge. (Euphorbia various species.) 



