ones after a time recover. After being picked up e the grass t i 
worms are often given to fowls and ducks, which devour them readily 
and apparently thrive on them 
effects of the Ch‘a tsai ping with which the worms were 
LXIII. —DEMERARA PINK ROOT. 
(Spigelia anthelmia, a. z 
We recently received from. St. Vincent, West diens specimer 
put. Me was Swe ted. d be poison ous to cattle, she 
goats, a e fatal in or three h This 
identified x Podio Olle AE Spigelia an o eg 3x 
natural order 
glabrous annual, with two pairs of u 
that the „Plant somewhat resembles Pari 
(* * Hio of E James ; "There ean be no doubt à 
“allied S. and yon en edies, but j 
© the unpleasant narcotic the 
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