Applied and economic botany, especially adapted for the use of students in technical schools, agricultural, pharmaceutical and medical colleges, and also as a book of reference for chemists, food (19560347298)

Title: Applied and economic botany, especially adapted for the use of students in technical schools, agricultural, pharmaceutical and medical colleges, and also as a book of reference for chemists, food analysts and students engaged in the morphological and physiological study of plants
Identifier: appliedeconomicb00krae (find matches)
Year: [c1914 [c1914]] ([c10 [c10s)
Authors: Kraemer, Henry, 1868-1924
Subjects: Botany; Botany, Economic; Botany, Medical
Publisher: Philadelphia, The author
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library



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648 A TEXT-BOOK OF BOTANY.
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FlG. 352. Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia). This is a handsome evergreen shrub growing on rocky hills and in damp soils in the eastern United States. The foliage is bright green, and the showy flowers occur in terminal corymbs, being either of a whitish or pink color. The leaves of many species of Kalmia are said to be poisonous to animals, which is especially true of the Sheep Laurel, known as Lambkill (Kalmia angustifolia), which is not infrequent on hillsides and pastures.—After Troth. The poisonous principle andromedotoxin is found in a number of species of Rhododendron, Leucothoe, and Pieris. This principle is a powerful emetic and one of the most toxic principles known.