The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner • Paragraph 1275
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The use of poisons as protection is eminently characteristic of three of the natural orders. The Buttercups (_Ranunculaceæ_), the Potato order (_Solanaceæ_) and the Lilies. Of the first named, the celery-leaved, and indeed all Buttercups, are extremely poisonous; so also are all Aconites and Hellebores, as well as Marsh Marigold, Adonis, Clematis, and Larkspur.