n by 1': .'annuel, ^ who shows that the various attempts 



upon the pail >f experts to deteot a poisonous principle in the wild 



parsnip have tailed. 



Tli.' Thornapplea. 



The potato family . Solanaoese I contains several kinds of poisonous 

 plants. Two of these are the thornapples, namely, Daft 



L and 1 ... both stout, much-branched, large- 



leaved, ill-smelling annual plants, producing enormous trumpet-like 

 flowers, followed by apinose fruits, hearing many dark seeds. Figure 

 3 (Plate II. show.- a small portion of a branch of the first-named 

 with two of the large hlossoms and one seed capsule in posi- 

 tion and another in sectional view with the Beeds exposed to sight. 

 The Tatula has purple hlossoms and dark stems, instead of 



white blossoms and green stems, in the /'. Stramonium, 



Both sp- - v nearly everywhere in the State in neglected waste 



land, and abound in all parts, but particularly the seeds, in atropine 



the antidote for the " :!y toadstool,' - considered later) and hyoseya- 



mine. These are very active poisons, the symptoms of which are 



headache, thirst, and convulsions that may end in death. 



Children are usually the ones who are poisoned by the Daturas by 

 eating the green capsules and the seeds they contain, that have an 

 agreeable taste, or by chewing the great blossoms. A case of this 

 kind is mentioned in the introduction to this bulletin, where the 

 child died from eating possibly not more than one green fruit. 

 Whenever the symptoms BUggest datura poisoning the physician 

 - immoned at once and emetics administered, followed by 

 frequent doses of morphia from the hands of the skillful practitioner. 



With this and all other vegetable poic - the lirst thing is to re- 

 lieve the victim of the material that has been swallowed and pL 

 the case under the watchful care of those who know best how to 

 counteract the poison by proper antid 



The daturas are large and well-known, unsightly weeds, and as 



such should not be permitted to grow around dwellings or in the 



ant lots in cities. That they are positively dangerous in a settled 



fact, and this should be sufficient to warrant tin ir destruction by the 



pro: ners or those most interested in the eradication of the 



idly plai. - - 



There are many names for these daturas, some of them more or 



*" Poisoning from Cowbaoe; I- the < Ultivated Parsnip Ki.nnini: Wild I'oison- 

 Bulletin N K re Experimeol Station 1£ 



