apoplexy, convulsions; f. snake bite; g. common
emergencies such as: 1. cinders in the eye; 2.
splinter under the nail; 3. wound from rusty nail;
4. oak and ivy poisoning; 5. insect in the ear.

A Girl Scout should demonstrate:

7. Applying a sterile dressing.

8. Stopping bleeding.

9. Putting on a splint.

10. Making a stretcher from uniform blanket or
Scout neckerchief and poles.

11. The Schaefer method of artificial respiration.

REFERENCES:

Section on First Aid in this Handbook.

American Red Cross Abridged Text Books on First Aid, Blakiston.

[Illustration: FLOWER FINDER SYMBOL--FLOWER]

1. To pass this test a Scout must be able to tell
the difference between plants and animals and the
difference between the two general types of
plants.

2. A Scout must also pass either the test for
Flowers and Ferns or Trees given below.

A. FLOWERS AND FERNS

1. Make a collection of fifty kinds of wild
flowers and ferns and correctly name them or make
twenty-five photographs or colored drawings of
wild flowers and ferns.

2. Why were the following ferns so named:
Christmas Fern, Sensitive Fern, Walkingleaf Fern,
Cinnamon Fern, Flowering Fern?

3. Name and describe twenty cultivated plants in
your locality.

4. Be able to recognize ten weeds.

5. How can you distinguish Poison Ivy from
Virginia Creeper? What part of Pokeweed is
poisonous? What part of Jimsonweed is poisonous?
Be able to recognize at least one poisonous
mushroom.

B. TREES

1. Give examples of the two great groups of trees
and distinguish between them.

2. Why is forest conservation important? What are
the laws of your State concerning forest
conservation?

3. Mention at least three uses of trees.

4. Collect, identify and preserve leaves from
twenty-five different species of trees.

5. Mention three trees that have opposite
branching and three that have alternate.

6. How do the flower-buds of Flowering Dogwood
differ from the leaf-buds? When are the
flower-buds formed?