118 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
Onash. On plant. . 
Potash wit id Airs LQ EOE 3.25 
Soda... ee ae a a Oeee 6.27 
Chloride of sodium ... pe Sea 8.46 
Lime Le of, ae OR 2.03 
Magnesia... ae A Seas 1.39 
Ferric oxide ... te Sed 1.83 AS 
Sulphuric oxide Beer naka 63 
Phosphoric oxide... Se sO .gI 
Silica (soluble) sc wie: ewan 54 
100.00 23.92 
South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland. 
14 Atriplex halimoides, Zzzd/ey, N.O., Chenopodiacez, (Syn. 
A. Lindleyt, Mog, A. inflata, F.v.M.); B.F1., v., 178. 
A ‘ Salt-bush.” 
Found over the greater part of the saline desert-interior of 
Australia, reaching the south and west coasts. A dwarf-bush, 
with its frequent companion, A. holocarpum, (F.v.M.), among the 
very best for salt-bush pasture. (Mueller.) 
All the colonies except Tasmania. 
£5: Atriplex nummularia, Z7ndley, N.O., Chenopodiacez ; B.FI., 
v.. L70: 
‘* Old-man Salt-bush,”’ or ‘‘ Cabbage Salt-bush.” 
One of the tallest and most fattening and wholesome of 
Australian pastoral salt-bushes; also highly recommended for 
cultivation, as natural plants. By close occupation of the sheep and ~ 
cattle runs, have largely disappeared, and as this useful bush is 
not found in many parts of Australia, sheep and cattle depastured 
on salt-bush country are said to remain free of fluke, and get 
cured of Distoma-disease, and of other allied ailments. (Mueller.) 
All the colonies except Western Australia and Tasmania. 
The following analysis of this salt-bush is by Mr. W. A. 
Dixon (Proc. Royal Society, N.S.W., 1880, p. 133) :— 
