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Chapter 19 FELONS AND OUTLAWS

The poisoning henbane, and the mandrake dread.

Drayton.

That there are felonious as well as philanthropic flowers, plants that are actively malignant in their relation to mankind, has always been a popular belief. The upas-tree, for example, has given rise to many gruesome stories; and the mandrake, fabled to shriek when torn from the ground,

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