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The leaves of both are of a deep-green colour, and the flowers bright- 
ellow. The effects of B. bulbosa, according to Sheep Inspector Hutchison, on 
cattle, sheep, and horses, are almost the same—continually lying down, rolling, 
terribly scoured, mucous discharge from the nose of a green and yellowish colour. 
Cattle survive the longest; sheep take some three days, and horses will linger 
for a weck. To a pony poisoned by this weed, Mr. Hutchison gave 10 drops 
of laudanum in half-a-bottle of castor oil three times during the day; also 
applied three bran poultices on the loins. This appeared to give immediate 
relief, as previously he could hardly use his hind legs, and was lying down with 
his head towards his sides biting his flanks. His urine was thick and green 
till after the second dose, when it appeared in its natural state; his eyes 
sunken, and flanks shaking. (From Bailey and Gordon’s “Plants Reputed 
Poisonous and Injurious to Stock, 1887.”) Other writers give a somewhat 
similar account of the effects they suppose to occur from animals eating 
Native Onion. 
