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issue from the nostrils. Animals apparently prefer the recumbent 

 position, extend the head on the ground, and seem entirely oblivious 

 to all surroundings. At first there is constipation, but later diarrhcBa 

 may set in and the excreta be tinged with blood. In the chronic form 

 the symptoms are not so violent. Jaundice may be entirely absent, 

 and emaciation and anaemia may be the chief signs. 



Chesnut and Wilcox record a case in which two sheep were each 

 given 150 medium-sized pods of a native lupine, and seemed to like them. 

 In 45 minutes, however, they became frenzied and died an hour later. 

 They give the symptoms as practically the same as those caused by 

 European species of Lupinus; acute cerebral congestion, with great 

 mental excitement, the sheep rushing about and butting into things; 

 following is a stage characterized by irregularity of movement, violent 

 spasms, and falling fits ; in most cases collapse and death occur within 

 half-an-hour to an hour and a half ; the pulse is strong and regular ; the 

 convulsions resemble to some extent those caused by strychnine; the 

 excretion of the kidneys is much increased and sometimes bloody. In 

 post-mortem examination the kidneys are found affected, the lungs 

 slightly congested, the cerebral membranes in all cases congested, and 

 in violent cases small blood vessels are ruptured in different parts of 

 the body. 



REFERENCES. 



4, 16, 20, 21, 42, 57, 63, 69, 82, 93, 128, 161, 



166, 170, 190, 203, 213. 



"Java" Beans {Phaseolus lunatus). Though not native to Great 

 Britain, the so-called Java -Beans have been imported in considerable 

 quantities for stock feeding, and in the past nine years have caused the 

 death of a large number of animals. For example, in March, 1906, the 

 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries published an account of the poisoning 

 of animals by these beans at eight centres; at six of the centres 133 

 cattle were involved and 43 died. The beans are of varying origin, and 

 pass under the name of Java beans, Eangoon beans, Burma beans, 

 Lima beans, and Paigya beans. They are considerably different in 

 colour according to origin, the Java beans being pale brown to almost 

 black; Rangoon, Burma or Paigya beans smaller, plumper, and lighter 

 in colour ("red Rangoon beans" are pinkish with small purple splotches, 

 and "white Rangoon beans" are pale cream); and Lima beans are 

 much larger than the last-named and pale cream or white in colour (see 

 Frontispiece). 



It has long been known that beans of certain forms of Phaseolus 



