II4 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
See also “Remarks on some Indigenous Shrubs of South 
Australia, suitable for culture as Fodder.” (S. Dixon.) Proc. R.S. 
of S.A., vol. viii. 
See also a paper by the Rev. Dr. Woolls, “On the Forage 
Plants Indigenous in New South Wales.” (Proc. Linn. Soc., 
NV.S.W., vii., 310.) 
Notes on the plants eaten (whether from inclination or 
necessity) by stock, with good or bad results, the distribution of 
them, together with any other particulars bearing upon their use 
as fodder plants, are much required, as the systematic recording 
of such information is even yet (at least as far as Australia is 
concerned) in its infancy. It is highly desirable to collect seeds 
of each useful (or likely to be useful) fodder plant, for experi- 
mental cultivation, either with the view to its improvement under 
such treatment, or with the view to acclimatise it in some other 
country in which it is not indigenous or already introduced. <A 
careful system of exchange of this kind cannot but result in 
benefit to the countries concerned. 
1. Abrus precatorius, Z7x., N.O., Leguminose, (Syn. A. 
paucifiorus, Desv.; A. sguamulosus, E. Mey.); B.FI., ii., 
270. 
The pretty little red seeds with black spots are called ‘*Crab’s Eyes,” 
and ‘ Jequirity Seeds.” 
This plant is not sufficiently abundant in Australia to affect 
stock to an appreciable extent, but it is interesting to observe that 
the cattle plague commission of India (1870), in their report, 
mentioned that a large number of the criminal cases of cattle- 
poisoning are effected through the agency of the seeds of this 
plant. More extended enquiry showed that this practice was 
common throughout the greater part of India. (Dymock.) 
Queensland and Northern Australia. 
2. Acacia aneura, /.v.47., N.O., Leguminosz, and other species, 
BEB), i. 202. 
“* Mulga,”’ forming the chief ingredient of the scrub of that name. 
