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JcuTual of Agriculture, Victoria. [lo Sept., 1912. 



Vernacular Names op Victorian Plants — continued. 



Botanical Name. 



Popular Name. 



Use or Character. 



DicoTYLEDONE.E — Choripetai.e.e Hvpogyn^ — Continued. 

 BVPHORBIXCE.E— continued. 



Claoxylon — 



australe, Biillon 



Adriana — 



tomentosa, Gaurlich. 



qiiadripirtita, Gaiidicli. . . 

 Omalanthus^ 



Lescheniultiauus, A. de 

 Jussieu 



URTICAC'E.E. 



Trema — 



aspera, Blume . . 



Ficus^ 



scabra, G. Forster 



Parietaria — 



debilis, G. Forster 

 Australina — ■ 



Muelleri, Wedd. . . 

 Urtica — 



incisa, P.jiret. 



Fagace.e. 



Vagus — 



Ciininii''hanui. Hooker 



Casuarinace.e. 



Casuarina — • 



*quadrivalvis, Libill. 



Heterodendron — 



oleaefolium, Desfont. 



Brittlewood 



Woolly Bitterbush 

 Common Bitterbush 



Poplar Spurge 



Rough Hemp Nettle 



Sand Paper Fig 



Forest Pellitory 

 Smooth Nettle . . 

 Scrub nettle 



Myrtle Beech 



Drooping Sheoke 



Berrigan 



Wood, light yellow colour, hard, close 

 grained, useful for cabinet-work. 



No known economic value. 



A suspected poison plant, but no poisonous 

 substance has been extracted. 



Is generally considered poisonous to stock 

 in dry seasons, but probably is only 

 mechanically injurious. 



Of no known economic value, but might 

 be used for polishing or scouring. 



Useless weeds, of which the last has 

 severe stinging properties. 



Useful for .sash and door-work and all 

 kinds of light joinery, also for furniture. 



All tlie casuarinas can be pollarded for 



cattle fodder. Foliage eagerly eaten 



by cattle, and useful to stock of all sorts 



in drought time. 

 A first-class fuel wood. 

 A hard close grained wood, useful for 



cabinet and ornamental work. 

 Of rapid growth. Wood valuable for 



staves, shingles, &c. Useful as forage 



for stock in time of drought. 

 Timber tough, coarse-grained and useful 



for many purposes. Stock fond of the 



young growth. 



Of some fodder value intimesof scarcity. 



A hardy evergreen climber. 



Greedily eaten by stock when otherherbage 

 is scarce. Wood hard and useful for 

 tool handles. 



Wood a yellowish colour with a black or 

 dark brown heart ; used for rollers and 

 rolling pins. 



"Plants marked thus are listed either as growing plants or as seeds by one or more of our florists. 



