. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. EUPHORBIACEAE—EUPHORBIA 603 ing and diarrhoea; 6, the stage of excitation, including nervousness, vertigo, and delirium; 31, the state of reaction, including heat and copious sweat. With reference to the physiological action of the common spurge (fi«- phorbia Preslii), the following statement is made by Dr. True: Headache with frontal fullness and heat; heat about the eyes; languor and drowsiness; oppression of the stomach; and const
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. EUPHORBIACEAE—EUPHORBIA 603 ing and diarrhoea; 6, the stage of excitation, including nervousness, vertigo, and delirium; 31, the state of reaction, including heat and copious sweat. With reference to the physiological action of the common spurge (fi«- phorbia Preslii), the following statement is made by Dr. True: Headache with frontal fullness and heat; heat about the eyes; languor and drowsiness; oppression of the stomach; and constipation. The juice applied to the eyes causes severe irritation, with smarting and burning, lachrymation, and momentary blindness; this we have experienced twice while gathering the plant. It is supposed that this species causes the afFec- tion in horses called "; 6. Mercurialis h. Mercury Annual or perennial herbs; with opposite pinnately veined leaves; flowers dioecious or monoecious in interrupted axillary spikes, apetalous; calyx small, green, 3-parted; capsule 3-lobed. Mercurialis annua L. Annual Mercury A leafy stemmed, erect, annual herb; leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, crenate serrate; carpels hispid; indigenous to Eu-rope, found in waste places from Nova Scotia to Ohio, and South Carolina. The M. perennis differs from M. annua in having a creeping perennial root, and hairy leaves. Poisonous properties. Both species are acrid and poisonous. 7. Acalypha L. Three seeded Mercury Herbs or shrubs, leaves alternate, petioled; flowers stipulate in spikes or spike-like racemes or solitary; calyx of staminate flowers 4-parted; calyx of. Fig. 339. Annual Mercury (Mercurialis annua). Staminate and pistillate branches. An acrid, poisonous plant. (After Faguet.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly re
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