PASPALUM GRASS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 101, 2 May 1938, Page 6

PASPALUM GRASS.

Your correspondent. W. A. Kent, evidently nii<lai<l his eye<rlas«s when reading my letter, for lie credits me with savin™ I had "Then forty-five years.' study to the exudation of paspalum iirass."' Xow to lie what I did say wa« thi<: '"I have had forty-five years' study in medical botany." For Mr. Kent's own information I may say I saw jjrovvinjr the lirst paspaluin seed, which was sent to Xew Zealand from Australia. It wr~ hand-shaken, and its stem* rear-lied about six feet. With reference to the small-sized erjrot heinp the mo>c poisonous. T would ask. "Whv d<> the manufacturers of fluid extracts choiw Spani.-h erpot in preference to the Russian':" Simplv liecan-.* | the Spanish is much larger and considered the J most potent: therefore the estee'iuvl. J-s |it pos.-ihle to conclude that the e\;ida! i.m is ja poisoi% simply because para'v-is the j result of l eedin™ J'i.-s on it~ *11"-*» .-t ii»n i instance, simple taiile salt d>--.-- nut Ivar a | povon label, and yet a dec;«ii->n . f f-:' ! t «i!l j kill pijrs wholesale. Any kind of wnniu i'ci'dinir ! may cau-e paralysis. ] therefore endor. e llr. jK. S. Duke.,* ;issortion that it is not a po;- >n ;and nothin™ akin to true erirot of rv«. | Henderson. .T. \\\ I'KI?iIKTT.