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ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
No. 36.] DECEMBER. [1889. 
CXXIL—POISONING FROM TURNSOLE IN PERSIA. 
(Chrozophora tinctoria, A. Juss.) 
The following oF ae ote has recently taken place respecting the 
poisonous properties of the Turnsole (Chrozophora tinctoria, A. Juss. 
Tent. Euphorb. 28, E ; 1. 29). is is an annual plant, with prostrate 
habit and softly clothed with stellate tomentum. It is found in the 
Mediterranean region, and extends eastward to Afghanistan and India. 
The poucncne character of the plant does not appear to have been 
dwelt upon, but there can be little doubt, from the observations of Mr. 
Casson in Persia, that under certain circumstances it is deadly in its 
effects on human life, and this fact cannot be too widely known :— 
Mr. Casson to ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
Her Majesty’s ge Tehran, 
Sm, July 8, 1889 
HAYE the honour to enclose specimen of a plant, known by the 
ers Tatuleh, from the eating of which I found six persons, 
varying in age from 65 to 8 years, exhibiting marked symptoms of 
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