22 SHORT NOTES AND QUERIES. 
pletely established: the Paspalum is quite as limited in its range as the 
isyrinchium. Asclepias Curassavica, from Brazil, is also thoroughly natn- 
richly coloured pulp of a deep mauve colour, but the flavour is insipid. 
necio vulgaris will not naturalize itself, though the attempt has been 
seriously made as a convenient green food for cage-birds. I have seen an 
and Stellaria media and the white Clover, are well known to be now quite 
at home in all cultivated parts of Australia —CuarLes PRENTICE. 
A Grass FATAL TO SuEEP.—One remarkable fact connected with 
Queensland botany is, that a Grass, which grows locally abundant in the 
more northern portions of the colony, Aristida hygrometrica, R. Br., is 
fatal to sheep, by reason of its long sharp tripartite awns getting entangled 
in the wool and ultimately piercing the skin and penetrating to the viscera 
of the thorax and abdomen, causing death after prolonged wasting an 
suffering ; the heart, liver, kidneys, etc., are sometimes, on dissection, 
found pierced by these mischievous awns in all directions.— CHARLES 
PRENTICE 
a neasurably minute. 
: f wood, and slightly resupinate. The speci- 
men has since been submitted to the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, who considers 
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