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Melolohiuin caudicans Eckl. and Zeyher. 

 This plant was also reported by Prof. MacOwan, as suspected 

 ^t the Cape, of causing- t'nenta poisoning in small stock (6j. 



Cystisus prolijerus Linn. f. ('" tagasaste "). 

 If eaten when in pod, this plant is said to intoxicate horses (6). 



Lathyrus sativus {" muttar "). 



The dried peas of this plant have been known to poison a whole 

 .^tud of omnibus horses, the symptoms being analogous with the 

 forms of neuritis already mentioned (6 and 8). A disease called 

 " lathyrism " appeared among Russian peasants in 1891, after 

 feeding on bread made of the muttar pea, when wheaten flour was 

 unobtainable (6). Church states that the paralysis induced in 

 .horses, bullocks, as well as in man, by the free use of these seeds 

 .is beyond dispute (12). 



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1. Burtt-^Davv, J. Plants Poisonous and Otherwise Injurious 



to Stock. Transvaal Department of Agriculture, Annual 



Report, 1903-04, pp. 316-317. 

 .2. Burtt-Davy, J. Styfziekte bosje. Transvaal Agricultural 



Journal, \'ol. 3, No. 10, p. 308 (January, 1905). 

 .3. Chesxut, V. K. Principal Poisonous Plants of the United 



States (1898). 

 4. P.AMMEL, L. H., and Fogel, Estelle D. A Catalogue of the 



Poisonous Plants of Iowa (1909). 

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Plants and Naturalised Aliens of Victoria (1909). 

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Journal, Vol. 3, Xo. 9, pp. 133-135. October, 1904. 

 .7. Maiden, Prof. J. H. The Useful Native Plants of Australia 



(1889). 



8. Watt, Dr. Geo. Dictionary of the Economic Products of 



India. 



9. Queensland Department of Agriculture Report, 1S91-2, 



p. 49. 

 ;10. Maiden, Prof. J. H. Plants reported to be Poisonous to 



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1901). 



13. Letter from Mr. Richard Kemp, a Resident of the Wol- 



maransstad District for 10 years prior to 1894. 



14. Manold, J. N., Lichtenburg, viva voce. 



15. Marshall, B. J., in lilt. 



16. A correspondent at Kosterfontcin, Rustenburg District. 



17. Turnbull, G. V. S., in Jitt. 



18. Letter 4923 of April 25th, 1910. 



19. Johnston, C. McG., in litt., 734 of April 2^, 1906. 



20. Letter 818 of May 9th, 1906. 



