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Poisonous mushrooms ; Irritating poisons / By G. Spratt, surgeon, fellow of the Medico-Botanical Society of London, and one of the editors of the Flora medica ; Lithographed by G.E. Madeley, 3 Wellington St[ree]t, Strand.
Summary
Illustration shows poisonous mushrooms, including Glutinous Agaric, Bulbous Agaric, Deadly Agaric, and Hy Amanita; and plants classified as irrigating poisons, including Meadow Saffron, Bear's Foot, Black Hellebore, Monk's Hood, White Hellebore, Mezereon, Celandine, Cardinal Flower, Arum or Wake Robin, Buttercups, Bryony, and Hemlock Dropwort; also descriptions of plants.
Illus. in: A table of vegetable poisons, exhibiting the principal poisonous plants ... By G. Spratt, [1843], page 1.
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