Now it is Dr. Zabriskie mentions to the editor of the Rural New Yorker a case in which a young lady ate a few leaves of the Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel or calico bush) as she was passing through the woods. She died that night. It has already been stated in our magazine that a chemical examination of the leaves has been made without a trace of poison being found in them. What the young lady wanted to eat " a few leaves " for is not apparent. And if she did, there are plenty of people who " died in the night" who never saw a kalmia leaf.