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NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Fred. Turner exhibited specimens of, and communicated a 

 note on, five interesting plants as follows : — 



Helipterum Jlorihundum, DC. Mr. G. Leaper, Manager, North 

 Abbotsford Station, Mossgiel, writing on June 6th, 1897, says : — 

 " I am forwarding to you by this mail a plant, locally known as 

 * daisy,' for your identification. It has for the last four years 

 taken the place of grass, and has proved to be a grand feed for 

 stock, retaining its greenness through all the drought. We have 

 had no rain since the 10th of January." 



Mr. James Harold, who has been travelling in the far western 

 portions of New South Wales and in the eastern parts of South 

 Australia, brought to Sydney a number of interesting plants. 

 Amongst them were the three following species of salt-bush : — 



(1) Atriplex vesicaria, Hew., which is very plentiful and has 

 supplied the principal feed for stock all through the recent 

 drought. It is regarded everywhere as an excellent forage plant. 



(2) Kochia aphylla, R.Br. All pastoralists regard this salt- 

 bush as an excellent forage plant, but it is becoming scarce, and 

 in fact has entirely disappeared from certain areas where it was 

 once very plentiful. 



(3) Kochia sedifolla, R.Br., which is plentiful on many pastoral 

 holdings, but when sheep eat greedily of it balls of felt-like sub- 

 stance form in their stomachs and often cause their death. I have 

 referred to similar circumstances in my " Indigenous Forage 

 Plants of Australia," in which all these plants are figured and 

 described. Also, 



(4) Solanum chenopodimun, F.v.M., a suspected poisonous plant 

 fi'om the Barrier Ranges. 



