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the left the external and the internal iliac were given off in the 
usual manner and their ramifications were normally distributed. 
On the right side, however, there was only one branch; a much 
larger trunk, about twice as large as usual, left the aorta and as¬ 
suming the position and course of the ordinary external iliac, kept 
this dimension as far as to about an inch above the point where, 
in normal structures, the iliac becomes femoral. At that point a 
very short trunk arose which soon divided itself into two branches 
representing the obturator and the iliaco-femoral termination of 
the internal iliac. The arteries which represent the collateral of 
this iliac, viz.: the umbilical, iliaco-muscular, gluteal, sub-sacral, 
and internal pudic, left the large abnormal artery at about their 
usual places and assumed the same distribution and ramifications. 
The circumflex iliac left the trunk at its usual place. 
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LOCO WEED * (Astragalus mollissimus; Nat. Ord. Leguminosse). 
By L. E. Sayre, Ph.G., Kansas State University, Department of Pharmacy. 
The Fifth Biennial Report of the State Board of Agriculture 
contains an article by me upon the interesting subject of the so- 
called Crazy weed. The plant is there described, and a few 
facts—gathered by personal correspondence with stockmen and 
farmers in western Kansas and in Colorado—are given. 
With a view of gathering other statistics concerning the 
effects of the weed upon animal life, and learning more of the 
extent of loss therefrom, I visited, in January last, certain parts 
of New Mexico and Colorado, and during the year have made a 
special trip for the same purpose, visiting more especially the 
southwestern portion of Kansas, from Harper to Meade counties. 
The latter trip was suggested by Mr. Robert E. Steele, on the 
“ Crooked L ” ranch at Meade Center, who wrote he had a 
“ locoed ” cow which he would place at my disposal for examina¬ 
tion if I would take the journey to his ranch. 
In the present article it will be necessary to repeat some of 
the statements made in the last, but the information will have the 
* From the Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture. 
