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IN the Notes in NATURE of November 4, p. 321, reference is made to “Senecio jacobaea, the source of the disease in sheep in Nova Scotia.” It should read “cattle” instead of “sheep,” for although injurious to sheep it has not been fatal to them as it has been to cattle. The “Pictou cattle disease” has in some quarters led to change of the common name “St. James ragwort” to “cattle-kill”—a term analogous to “lamb-kill” for Kalmia glauca and K. angustifolia, supposed to be poisonous to young sheep.
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MACKAY, A. The Alkaloids of Senecio Jacobæa. Nature 106, 503 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106503d0
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