POISONOUS PLANTS , 



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nantB. W. Watson,* in one of his invaluable pioneer 

 articles on botany as applied to veterinary science, refers 



Fig. 10.— Spike of 

 Ebgotised Bye. 



(From Smith's 

 'Veterinary Hygiene.') 



Fig. 11. — Ergots Germinating. 

 (From Smith's 'Veterinary Hygiene.') 



Fig. 12. — Botrytis Grisba. 

 (From Smith's ' Veterinary Hygiene.') 



Fig. 13. — Penicillicm Glaucum. 

 (From Smith's ' Veterinary Hygiene.') 



to the popular belief that cows, grazing in a field containing 

 ergotised grasses, aborted their calves, but sheep and cows 

 Veterma/riwn, 1859, p. 574. 



