ARABIA’S LAUGHING PLANT
, A naturalist reoently. nthtnei fror’ Arabia has demritwd .to a pTani called fhe laughiSig-cßrtßn- Tb -plant yets its nanm from tM-fact tha anyone eating its seed gives way fqr sons minutes afterwards tg Immoderate laugl ter, frequently ending in nervous prostra The natives of the district in-whic’. the plant flourishes dry the seeds ana grind them into powder, which they keep and on suitable occasions administer to those against whom they have a real 0.fancied grievance.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12008, 10 December 1924, Page 11
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79ARABIA’S LAUGHING PLANT New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12008, 10 December 1924, Page 11
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