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grown in private (English) gardens for many years past, and it 
yields a large produce, which in the hands of a skilful cook may 
be made an excellent vegetable dish, though inferior to spinach. 
The chief objection to it as a cooked vegetable is: the abundance 
of mucilage, which gives it a somewhat slimy consistence. 
(Treasury of Botany.) It should be eaten when young, as when 
mature it possesses some acridity. It is already cultivated to 
some extent in Australian gardens, but it is abundantly wild at 
many parts of the coast. 
All the colonies. 
201. Tetragonia implexicoma, Hook. f, (Syn. Zetragonella 
implexicoma, Miq.), N.O., Ficoidez, B.F1., iii., 326. 
Called “Ice Plant” in Tasmania. 
Baron Mueller suggests that this plant be cultivated for 
spinach. 
All the colonies except Queensland. 
202. Timonius Rumphii, DC., (Syn. Polyphragmon sericeum, 
Desf. ; Guettarda poly phragmordes, F.v.M.), N.O., Rubiacez, 
Be Ani, 41-7. 
‘“Kavor-kavor,” of the aboriginals. 
The aboriginals are particularly fond of this fruit, which has 
much the appearance of the crab or wild apple of Europe. 
{Thozet.) 
Queensland and Northern Australia. 
203. Trigonella suavissima, Zzzd/., N.O., Leguminosz, B.FI., 
li., 187. 
“The perfume of this herb, its freshness and flavour, induced 
me to try it as a vegetable, and we found it to be delicious, tender 
as spinach, and to preserve a very green colour when boiled.” 
(Mitchell, Three Expeditions, p.554.) It is an excellent antiscor- 
butic. 
All the colonies except Tasmania and Queensland. 
