BY F. M. BAILEY, F.L.S. l9 



Few of our Lahiates have been tried for medicinal purposes, 

 yet many if examined would most likely be found to possess, if 

 not medicine, valuable fragrant oils for other purposes. Baron 

 von Mueller says that several of our mints yield oil of good 

 flavour and among them our common Pennyroyal, Mentha 

 satureioides, R. Br. 



Valuable properties are ascribed by both native and European 

 doctors in India to various species of Oojmum. 0. sanctum, Linn, 

 the leaves of which in a dried and pulverised state are used by 

 the Bengal natives as snuff in the endemic affections of the nasal 

 cavities and are termed Peenash, is said to be an effectual means 

 of dislodging the larvae of flies from wounds. The Australian 

 plant is a narrow-leaved form of this species, and has a delightful 

 fragrance resembling anise, hence Baron von Mueller's name, 

 0. amsodoruni. 



The common horehound, Marrulium vulgare, Linn., which has 

 become naturalized in many parts of the colony, is thought by 

 some to be beneficial to sheep. An extract of this herb is a 

 popular remedy for coughs and asthmatic complaints ; it is also 

 recommended in chlorosis and hysteria as stimulating and tonic. 

 The plant was once used in many diseases but scarcely at all now 

 except as a domestic remedy for chest complaints. An erect herb 

 of this order, plentiful in the Toowoomba and other swamps. 

 Lycopus Australis, P. Br, being nearly related to the English 

 Water Horehound, from which a black dye is obtained, it might 

 be well to try for a similar property. 



The Chenopodiacece are chiefly of importance to us as containing 

 the highly esteemed fodder called salt bushes; but from the genera 

 Salsola and Salicornia, both salt marsh plants, large quantities of 

 soda might be obtained. 



In Amarantacecd the order to which our garden Cock's-comb 

 belongs, we find many of our most troublesome weeds and one 

 of these, Amarantus viridis, Sim., is not without its use for besides 



