130 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
inflorescence. When the seeds fall on the ground, the wild pigeons 
greedily feed and fatten on them; if the crops of these pigeons, 
containing the seeds, be eaten by dogs, they die; yet the pigeons 
themselves, when dressed, are good food, and at that season are 
eaten in large numbers by the settlers. Horses, so far as is 
known, are not affected by it, at least this is the prevailing opinion, 
although it is disputed by some of the settlers. (T. R. C. Walter, 
in Pharm. Fourn., Vi., 311.) 
With sheep who have eaten the herb, the best treatment has 
been found to fold them, or shut them up in a close yard, so 
closely packed that they can hardly move, and to keep them thus 
without food for thirty-six hours. (See an interesting account in 
Pharm. Fourn., Vi., 31.) 
In the Flora Australiensis a statement is quoted that G. 
bilobum is the worst of the “ Poison Bushes.’’ Certainly some of 
them render extensive tracts of country unoccupiable. 
Western Australia. 
50. Gastrolobium gsrandiflorum, 77.17, N.O., Leguminosz, 
B.FI., ii., 103. 
‘© Wall-flower or Desert Poison Bush.”’ 
With one exception, this is the only Gastrolobium out of 
Western Australia, and it is the only Queensland one, 
Baron Mueller identified this plant as having poisoned large 
numbers of cattle and sheep on the Cape River, and at the sources 
of the Burdekin and Flinders Rivers in 1863-4. He recommends 
frequent burning off on the stony ridges it frequents, with the 
view to its suppression or eradication. 
Queensland and Northern Australia. 
51. Geijera parviflora, Zizd/., (Syn. G. pendula, Lindl.) ; N.O., 
Rutacee, B.FI., i., 364. 
‘“‘ Wilga,” ‘‘ Sheep-bush,” ‘“‘ Dogwood” and * Willow.” 
Mr. S. Dixon states that sheep only are particularly fond of 
this bush, and it seems quite unaffected by droughts, 
All the colonies except Tasmania. 
