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42 ; POISONING BY THE SEEDS OF MACROZAMIA SPIRALIS. bag 
T. acutum. Seabanks z opum 
Lolium perenne. 
Com 
L. italicum. (cea Wd with Trifolium hybridum in forage- — 
fields. 
Polypodium vulgare. Frequen 
Polystichum angulare. Beni principally in the lanes of the | 
Devonian tract. 
Lastrea Filix-mas. Fre 
Lanes of the — tract. 
L. emula. Lanes of the Devonian tract at Manaccan and Pengerrick. 
apes Fi Dine . Frequent. 
Asplenium num.  Seacliffs, near Lizard Poi 
A a a rin. ommon on walls oe Ruta-muraria. 
Scolopendrium vulgare. Frequent, pruni in the lanes of the De- — 
vonian tract. 
Blechnum and Pteris. Both freque 
gn ape ae By streamlets at eae Mullion, and Pengerrick. 
d at Tre 
Equisetum maximum. Woo thevas, and by a stream down the 
seabank, north of Llandewednack. 
E. arvense. mon 
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E. palustre. Not unfrequent. 
A CASE OF POISONING ots S ep eS OF MACROZAMIA 
By Grorce Bennert, M.D., F.L.S., ETO. 
I lately received a letter from Mr. W. C. Brown, dated September 5th, 
1871, from Singleton, in which he says, “I enclose a nut in this letter 
for your inspection and report. I think it varese a na arcotic ew 
ca 
" Blackfellow Potatoes " and more commonly about Sydney the “ Native 
Palm.” The cone of M. spiralis is of large size, the male long and 
slender, the female measuring about ten inches in sates by about an 
> size ol à 
: Er rn are ripe, they cde of a brilliant scarlet c olour. Some years 
well. The fossil abe Ki Cycads attest their havin formed a very col 
c Britai 
Sydney, and in certain areas in ant South Wales; the leaves from their 
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resemblance in foliage to Palms, are used in the Roman Catholic churches - 
