POISONOUS PLANTS : Page 809


Where animals may browse, the planter should not place anyform of the kalmia or laurel. This is the only desirable plant in List Aof considerable range that grazing animals are apt to feed upon. Inthe west, particularly Wyoming, many sheep are killed by eating thewoody aster or the death camas. The darnel poisons men, dogs,horses, and sheep, but does not harm cows, pigs, and ducks.

Of those in the first group, the mushroom is the only one that islikely to be eaten by a human being. The more dangerous species ofit is the amanita phalloides or "deadly amanita," for it is widelydistributed in woods and meadows and for the phallin that it con-

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