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have vermifugal properties. This plant withstands a long period of 
dry weather, and its green leaves and small pink flowers may often 
be seen when the surrounding vegetation is dried up for want of 
rain. It is a good forage plant, and both sheep and cattle are very 
partial to it. As it begins to grow very early in the season, before 
many other useful kinds of herbage put forth new leaves, it is a 
desirable plant to encourage in the pastures. The “ ogweed ” 
frequently grows in juxtaposition to members of the mallow family, 
particularly species of the genera Lavatera, Malvastrum, and Sida, 
several of which whilst young are good forage plants. In that state 
sheep and cattle are very fond of them, for both their stems and 
leaves are succulent and mucilaginous. 
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flavour that pervades most of them. Towards the end of winter or 
which germinates readily after a good rainfall at almost any season 
of the year, and the resulting growth is a quantity of succulent 
herbage. 
_ Nardoo (Marsilea Drummondii),—This is a plant of historical 
interest, inasmuch as its fruit at one time formed, after preparation, 
an important article of food for the aborigines, and is still used by 
them in the far interior, and the unfortunate explorers Burke and 
Wills tried to subsist on it, although, judging from Wills’ journal, 
it does not appear to have afforded them much nourishment. This 
plants grow rapidly in the mud, and eventually cover the ground 
ae getation, reminding one of cultivated clover. All 
ssa soya a a extremely fond of this plant, which is regarded as 
Native carrot (Daucus brachiatus).—An annual herb with herba- 
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