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A. Garhancillo Cav. en A. imifuUus L.’Hér. Giftig voor het vee. 
A, spec. div, In Amerika tot de giftige „loco-weed” gerekend. 
Wistaria Chinensis DC. giftig, glukosiedhoudend. 
Sivainsona (*) galegifolia R. Br. (= S. coronillaefolia Salisb.) 
(„Darling pea,” „Indigo-plant”, e.). 
„Owe of the most dreaded plants hy stockoivners. lts effect on 
sheep is tvell known; they separate from the flock^ wander ahont 
ïistlessly and are known to the shepherds as y^pea-eaters’’' or ^indigo- 
eatersy When once a sheep takes to eating this plant it seldom 
or nerer fattens^ and may he saki to he lost to its owner. Horses^ 
af ter eating this herh, tvere exceptiojially diffcult to catch and it 
was ohserved hoiv strange they aptpeared^ their eyes ivere staring out 
of their heads, and they were prancing against trees and stumps, 
The second day tivo out of nine died^ and five others had to he left 
at the campT (Maiden). 
S. Greyana Lindl. 
^Eating the herhage causes madness. Animals affected hj it may 
refuse to cross even a smalt tivig lying in their path^ apparently 
imagining it to he a great log, Sometimes the poor creatiires attempt 
to climh trees^ or commit other excentricitiesT (Maiden). 
Indigofera galego'ides DC. Java. Blauwzuurhoudend (als amorph 
amygdaline). 
I. tinctoria L. 
„ The seeds yield a tincture ivhich is used to destroy liceT (Phar- 
macogr. Ind,). 
I. australis Willd. In Australië schadelijk geacht voor het vee. 
I, Anil L. en J. Unifolia Retz. Bladen in Perzië als vermifugum. 
I. sp. div, De zaden gelden voor giftig. 
f. Hedysareae, 
Ro. 109 (81). Ormocarpium glahnim T. et B. 
(*) y^Some Swainsona’s are excellent fod der planfs^ white others produce 
the myste^doiisly fatal effects. Chemical analysis has failed to isolafe a 
toxic princijde, and examination of the hodies of sheep (^pea-eaters") has 
not yet thrown clear light upon the subject. (J. II. Maiben, 1897). 
Yolgens een recent onderzoek van C J. Martin is de doodsoorzaak eene 
hevige ontaarding der zenuwuiteinden (periphere neuritis). 
