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Journal of Agriculture. 



[8 Feb.. 1908. 



THE PROCLAIMED PLANTS OF YICTORL\. 



{Continued from page 26.) 



Alfred J. Kwart. D.Sc Ph.D.. F.L.S., Government Botanist; and 

 J . R. Tovey, Herbarium Assistant. 



Common Horeliound. 



Marrubium vulgar e, Linn. (Labiatce.) 



Stem rather thick, a foot and a half high, or more, with spreading 

 brai'ches, thickly covered with a white cottony wool. Leaves stalked, 

 orbicular, soft, and much wrinkled. Flowers in dense whorls or clusters 

 in the axils of the upper-leaves, small, of a dirty w^hite. Calyx with ten 

 small, hooked teeth. Upper lip of the corolla narrow, erect, -and 2 cleft. 



A native of Europe, Asia, and Africa. 



An extract of this perennial odorous herb, is commonly used as a 

 cough medicine. The flowers afford to bees nectar for a pale excellent 

 honey, which is however not palatable to all tastes. In many countries 

 the plant becomes a weed, and takes possession of large patches of 

 pasture land, thus preventing the growth of more useful vegetation. It 

 should be dug up before flowering, and the short stout root stock destroyed 

 bv quick lime or burning. Ploughing and summer fallows soon suppress it. 



Proclaimed for the Shires of Maldon and Warrnambool. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



EXAMINATION RESULTS, FARMERS' CLASSES, 1907. 

 {Continued from page 4Q.) 

 H . Y . Hawkins, Superintending Officer. 



Penshi'est. 



