[TheForge] thorn apple and firebrick

[lee robbins]

Yeah, like that, although I was more thinking of 
Ernst Haeckel's
drawings of radiolaria.

My father told me about encountering Jimpson weed in
Texas but,
although it's said to grow in the east, I've never
seen it.  Hadda
google up a pic of the pod.  The railroad spike ball
would probably be
more, well, prickly, unless you made a spherical sheet
metal shell
instead of just a temporary form.

- Mike

The refraction microscope of diatomaceous earth are
wonderfully spikey.

The Jimson weed, thorn apple, was a problem on Long
Island where it grows freely and contains the atropine
alkaloids in the leaves, apple and seeds and they were
smoked for the affects by teens., i lug a brugmansia
in a tub in and out summers since it is fragrant and
jimson weed doesnt grow here, too cold. Jimson weed 
The group of alkaloids in high dose cause a state of
hallucination with pupils unable to focus that cause
the imagery of Halloween. alcohol extraction produces
the donnatal taken as a stomach medicine. It was
devils weed in the Teachings of Don Juan a book that
had a brief popularity. The name is corrupted from
jamestown weed, where eaten as vegetable it killed. 

by the way about the discussion on firepots. My old
buffalo coal forge , now stored since i too use gas,
has firebrick sitting on the metal bed with the
firepot sitting with a 1/4 inch lip over the brick.

Lee




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