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GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY.! 
_ Tue Poison of ZYGADENUS PANICULATUS.—A partial report from 
the Government chemist, shows that the bulbs of Zygadenus 
paniculatus Watson, have a glucosid to which their poisonous 
properties are attributed. Convulsions and speedy death follow 
the eating the bulbs of this plant. No antidote is yet known for 
it—I, EF. Fones, Salt Lake City. : 
GERMINATION OF AsTRAGALUS UTAHENSIS.—While gathering 
plants on the mountains near Salt Lake City (Utah Territory), I 
was very much puzzled by seedlings of our beautiful Astragalus 
Utahensis T. and G. It grows in the sand, first throwing up its 
small cotyledons, then producing two large round, woolly, simple 
leaves one inch in diameter, on a petiole often three inches long; 
after these comes another pair of similar leaves; then another 
with two leaflets on the long petiole, then another with either two 
leaflets (one on the end of the petiole and the other on one side), 
or three leaflets in the true odd-pinnate style; the next pair with 
either three or five, the next with five or seven, and so on, It is 
a long while after the germination of the seeds before one would 
Suspect that it is an Astragalus, or even a member of the Legu- 
minose.— MM. E. Fones, Salt Lake City. 
Ow our Rep CLoveR BEHAVEs.—In 1879 our crops of red 
Clover ( Trifolium pratense) were very luxuriant. After the hay- 
ing season it made a second growth, in many instances little in- 
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