130 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
67. Pimelea hematostachya, #v.JZ., N.O., Thymelez, B.FI., 
Vii Ze. 
This very handsome plant might with advantage be introduced 
into garden culture, but it is one of the worst of poisonous herbs, 
and often causes the loss of hundreds of sheep, yet their lives 
could, perhaps, be saved by slitting their ears soon after they had 
eaten the herb. (Bailey.) 
Queensland. 
68. Pittosporum phillyreoides, DC., (Syn. P. angustifolium, 
Lodd.; P. longifolium, Putterl.; P. Roéanum, Putter. ; 
P. ligustrifolium, A. Cunn.; P. oleefolium, A. Cunn. ; 
P. acactoides, A. Cunn.; P. salicinum, Lindl.; P. lanceola- 
tum, A. Cunn.) ; N.O., Pittosporez, B.FI., i., 112. 
Called variously ‘‘ Butter-bush,” ‘‘ Willow Tree,” ‘ Native Willow,” 
and “ Poison-berry Tree.” 
In times of scarcity this tree is of great value, as it with- 
stands drought, and sheep and cattle browse upon its foliage. 
Stock are so partial to it in the interior districts that it is in danger 
of extermination in parts, and it is a tree which should be con- 
served. 
All the colonies except Tasmania. 
69. Plantago varia, R.Br., (Syn. P. debili’s, Nees) ; N.O., Plan- 
taginez, B.FI., v., 139 (where see synonymy). 
“ Native Plantain.” 
This plant is relished by stock. Speaking of an allied species 
(P. lanceolata), an English writer observes :—“‘ Its mucilaginous 
leaves are relished by sheep, and, to acertain extent, by horses and 
cattle, but it seldom answers asa crop, unless on very poor land 
where little else will grow. It was generally sown with clover, and 
this mixed crop is occasionally seen now on barren soils, but there 
can be little doubt that the plantain is inferior in produce, and 
probably in nutritive qualities, to many plants that would grow 
equally well onthe sameland. Mingled with grasses in permanent 
pasture it may be beneficial in small quantity, but tends, like all 
broad-leaved plants, to destroy the more delicate herbage around it.”’ 
All the colonies. 
