This plant, which is easily recognised from its prickly holly-like 

 leaves, is reported from the south-west, central, and north-east 

 districts, and is found in rough scrub and rocky places, or on clay 

 plains. Its height is from two to four (Vet, and it Mowers in Sep- 

 tember and October. Like the others, it is hurtful when in flower 

 or in pod, or after lires ; and it may be assumed that when its 

 spinv leaves are old and dry, it is less likely to be eaten, whether 

 in that state its leaves are equally poisonous or less so than when 

 young and tender. 



Box POISON. 



O.vvlobitun parrijlonini. A tall spreading shrub, the young 

 shoots hoary with a minute silky pubescence ; leaves alternate, 

 opposite or in threes, narrow oblong, slightly wedge-shaped or 

 linear, blunt or notched, mostly about I inch long, leathery, hairless 

 above, minutely silky pubescent underneath, the margins usually 

 recurved ; flowers small, orange-yellow and purple, in slender 

 bunches, terminal or in the angles of the upper leaves, often 2 to 3 

 inches long ; calyx about 2 lines long, minutely pubescent, the 

 points acute, and scarcely so long as the lower part, the two upper 

 ones broader curved and united nearly to the top into a square 

 upper lip ; uppermost petal nearly 4 lines diameter, the lower ones 

 rather shorter ; pod on a rather long stalk, 4 to 6 lines long, hairy, 

 with a narrow point ; seeds only one or two, instead of four, 

 without any outgrowth near their attachment, embedded in a pithy 

 substance lining the cell. 



The box poison is found in the central, eastern, south-west 

 and southern districts of the colony, and grows in all qualities of 

 soil sand, gravel, clay, rocky, or good land. Some believe it to 

 be specially associated with the white gum, so that when that tiee 

 is met with the box poison may be looked for. It flowers between 

 August and December, and attains a height of six or eight feet, the 

 minimum reported being one foot. It is a virulent poison and pro- 

 duces a large quantity of seed, according to Mr. E. R. Parker, who 

 states that he has known the flesh of pigeons that have been feeding 

 on box-poison seeds kill dogs and cats. 



Sandplain poison appears judging from the only scrap of the 

 plant available to be referable to Oxylobium pan'iflonini, and is 

 therefore a variety of box, modified by the particular conditions 

 under which it has grown. It is reported from the sandplains in 

 districts to the north and north-east of Perth, and also from iron- 

 stone gravel ridges at the Kalgan River. It is found from six inches 

 to two, three, or four feet in height, and flowers between August 

 and December, and, like the other poison plants, is most dangerous 

 when in flower or in seed, or when sending up young 

 shoots. 



