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SECT. XIV.—PLANTS NOXIOUS TO CATTLE.

655. DARNEL GRASS. Lalium lenadentum ___This grasshas the fa-.

culty of causing poultry or birds to become intoxicated, and so muchso that it causes their death.

656. LOUSEWORT. Pedicularis pahistris. — This plant, whichabounds in wet meadows, is said to produce a lousy disease in cowsif they cat of it.

657. MAYWEED. Anthemis Cotula.— This is altogether of suchan acrid nature, that the hands of persons employed in needing cropsand reaping, are often so blistered and corroded as to prevent theirworking. It also has been known to blister the mouths and nostrils ofcattle when feeding where it grows.

658. COT.CHICUM autumnale. MEAnow-SAFFRoN.—This is a com-mon plant in pasture-land in Worcestershire, Herefordshire, and otherbounties. Many are the instances that have occurred of the bad ef-fects of it to cattle. \ have this last autumn known several cows thatdied in consequence of eating this plant.

659. MELILOT. Trifolium officinale. —This plant when eaten bycows communicates a disagreeable taste to milk and buiter.

660. ROUND-LEAVED SUN-DEW. Drosera rotundifolia — -Verycommon on marshy commons, and is said to be poisonous to sheep, andto give them the disease called the rot.

661. SEA BARLEY-GRASS. Hordeum marilimum— This grasshas been known in the Isle of Thanet and other places to produce adisease in the mouths of horses, by the panicles of the grass penetratingthe skin.

662. WATER-HEMLOCK. Phellandrium aquaticum —Linnaeus in-forms us that the horses in Sweden by eating of this plant are seizedwith a kind of palsy, which he supposes is brought upon them, notso much by any noxious qualities in the plant itself, as by a certaininsect which breeds in the stalks, called by him for that reason Cur-culio paraplecthus [Syst. Nat. 510.]. The Swedes gi\e swine's dungfor the cure.

663. YEW. Taxus baccata. —This is poisonous to cattle : farmers andother persons should be careful of this being thrown where sheep orcattle feed in snowy weather. It is particularly dangerous to deer, forthey will eat of it with avidity when it comes in their way.