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Excerpt from A Manual of Poisonous Plants: Chiefly of Eastern North America, With Brief Notes on Economic and Medicinal Plants, and Numerous Illustrations Many persons may object to the great number of plants which are here regarded as poisonous or described as such in this work. I have placed the broadest interpretation on the subject and have, therefore, included all plants that are injurious although many of these are not known to produce poisons, some even being most useful economic plants and yet injurious to some people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.