“A Brilliant Conspiracy” Episode 11.

Blurb & other Episodes

Kidney failure blaming laurel ingestion mirrors, notably, other poisons.

“Quixotic reasoning,” deduced Jamila.

Except her suspects traditionally cultivated unkempt vegetation with xyris, yaupon, and zebra grass.

 

Glossary:

Quixotic          extremely idealistic; unrealistic and impractical.

Xyris               a genus of flowering plants in the Yellow-eyed-grass family.

Yaupon           a holly of the southern US. Sometimes dried and brewed as a tea, its bitter leaves contain caffeine and have emetic properties.

Zebra grass      ‘Zebrinus’ is a deciduous grass with arching, linear leaves bearing transverse bands of cream or pale yellow

 

Toxic grass: http://homeguides.sfgate.com/poisonous-ornamental-grasses-22480.html

Yaupon toxicity: http://www.pawsdogdaycare.com/toxic-and-non-toxic-plants/yaupon

                        http://naturallysavvy.com/blog/yaupon-leaves-are-safe-but-dont-eat-the-berries

 

 

Archibald’s ‘Horse of the Day’

http://www.paulaura.com/betgloss.htm

Kincsem was a Hungarian mare that won 54 races for 54 starts against female and male rivals in five countries. Backing the most successful Thoroughbred racehorse ever would have yielded 54 cool Kites.

 

Jamila’s ‘Daily Poison’

http://www.britannica.com/science/poison-biochemistry/Types-of-poison#ref396648

Kissing bug (Triatoma species);

Distribution: Latin America, United States;

Toxic principle: unknown;

Symptoms: bite usually painless; later itching, edema about the bite, nausea, palpitation, redness; the bite is of relatively minor importance but spreads Chagas disease caused by a trypanosome (protozoan)

 

Word Links

http://www.wordfind.com/

http://phrontistery.info/glossaries.html

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/wordlist/adverbs.shtml

https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/prepositions-list.htm

 

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