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CROTON FLAVENS L* 
This plant was reported to be used as an insecticide in Venezuela, 
but it had no effect on roaches, flies, or gnats.— Thorns (401) • 
CROTON OBLONGIFOUUS Roxb # 
The seeds were stated to be used as an insecticide in India*— 
Chopra and Badhwar (98) • 
CROTON sp*. 
Croton was used in China as an insecticide; its poison killed aphlda 
(Jen* 1958* Univ. of Minn* Master's thesis) •— Shepard (563, p. 29)* 
Ca^ncanapire £ a species of Croton^ was used in Venezuela for 
killing insects*— Roark (352 , p* 8)* 
CROTON TIGLIUM L. 
In eastern China one of the control measures for larvae of Rondotia 
aenoiana Moore, attaoking mulberry trees, was spraying with croton oil 
emul si an*— Chu (99)* 
The seeds of this species are the source of an important home-made 
insecticide in China* The methods of making and using are given*— 
Jung (223 ) * 
This plant has been found of inseotioidal value against oertain in- 
sects in southern China*— Chiu (94)* 
This plant is cultivated in China, where the powdered seeds soaked 
in water are used to destroy Rondotia menoiana and aphids*— Soar one (355 ) • 
EREMOCARPUS SETIGERUS (Hook.) Benth* Turkeymullein* 
Cold-Crater extracts of this common weed of southern Oregon were 
found to be toxic to goldfish, just as are extracts of derris and cube 
root* Extended studies were being made by the Oregon State Department 
of Agriculture to determine whether this plant could be developed as a 
source of insecticide*— Thomssen and Doner (402 )* 
EUPHORBIA ANTIQUORUM L. 
The juice was used to kill maggots in wounds*— Kirtikar and Basu 
(230, v. 2, p. 1131)* 
