16 NOVEMBER 1912, Page 34

[TO TIER EDITOR 07 THE "SrEcrAron."1

SITI.,—my attention was directed to-day to a letter in your last issue asking about the loco plant. This information I can give if you care to have it. There are several plantain different countries that possess the same poisonous action, known under this name. I suppose illustrations of the plants are not quite

in the line of your paper. If they are, they are available in the case of some of the loco plants. The poisonous action is due to a poisonetts principle present to a very small extent and-tlierefore presumably powerful.—I am, Sir, &c.,