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an aggressive and useless weed which is by many considered 

 dangerous and supposed to give cattle the staggers, hence its trivial 

 name. When green it is not readily eaten by domesticated animals, 

 but when mixed with hay, or particularly in chaff, it cannot be 

 avoided by them, and then is claimed to produce the affection 

 called u staggers." Although much doubt exists on this point, it is 

 as well to obviate even a presumed danger, if such it only were, by 

 vigorously suppressing this useless weed upon its first appearance. 



Lanlann camera (Lantana). Indigenous to sub-tropical and 

 tropical America. A perennial shrub attaining in rich soil a height 

 of upwards of 20 feet ; muclr branched and densely matted, it 



Hoincria lincala. 



suppresses, where it becomes established, all other vegetation except 

 strong trees. Foliage dark green, and strong smelling ; leaves lan- 

 ceolate ovate, rough on the upper surface, regularly bluntly toothed 

 round the margin ; llowers in clusters, pink, and later yellow ; 

 berries with a thin blackish pulp. The plant is very ornamental and 

 originally has been introduced for decorative purposes. Its profuse 

 production of seeds, however, has caused it to become widely dis- 

 tributed in many places through the agency of birds. In the north- 

 ern parts of Xew South Wales it has destroyed thousands of acres 

 of the most valuable land, and since its introduction into Kfatc the 

 southern island of the New Hebrides, about ten years ago, it has 



