The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner • Paragraph 1281
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A particularly useful order of plants (_Leguminosæ_), the Beans and Peas, contains a few poisonous species. It is said that in every year children are sure to be killed by eating the seeds of the Laburnum, and to this order belong also the Calabar Bean and Crab's Eyes. The last named is only fatal when introduced below the skin in small quantities. The seeds of the Bitter Vetch (_Lathyrus sativus_) produce paralysis of the legs in man and also in horses. The Crazy or Loco weed of North America is sometimes eaten by horses in the Western United States. The wretched animals stagger about as if intoxicated, and eventually die. Belonging to this same order is the Wild Tamarind, or Jumbai, of Jamaica (_Leucæna glauca_). It is a weedy-looking acacia, and extremely common in all tropical countries. Dr. D. Morris thus alludes to it:--[108]