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by the Department of Agriculture during the past 

 twenty years. James Henderson, of Tambourine, 

 is said to have imported Kaffir Corn during the eighties. 



Panicum {Setaria italic a). 



Growing in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens prior to 

 1871. 



Kentucky Blue Grass {Poa prate^ise). 



Introduced by AccUmatisation Society in 1877. 



Teosinte {Euchlaena luxurians). 



Introduced by the Brisbane Botanic Gardens and 

 Acclimatisation Society in 1878. 



Caterpillar Grass (Paspalum dilaiatum). 



Introduced by John Mahon, Principal, Queensland 

 Agricultural College, who brought it from New South 

 Wales, in 1897. 



Oats (Avena sativa). 



Oats were grown at the penal settlement at Ipswich 

 in 1828. Grown extensively since the fifties, about 

 17,000 acres being under cultivation in 1908. 



Rye {Secale cereale). 



In 1877, the Acclimatisation Society distributed 

 seed which had been received from Angas Mackay. 

 It is said that Dr. Joseph Bancroft first cultivated 

 this about Brisbane for fodder. 



Wonder Grass ] 



or [ (Panicum muticwm). 



Giant Couch J 



Obtained by Dr. Joseph Bancioft in the seventies, 

 from, I believe, Dr. Schomburgh, the Director of the 

 Adelaide Botanic Gardens. 



Canary Grass (Phalaris nodosa). 



Growing at Toowoomba Botanic Gardens in E. Way's 



time, in the seventies. 

 Clovers — The Red Clover {Tri folium pratense), and the 



White Clover {T. repens). 



Were introduced by the Acclimatisation Society in 

 1865, and the latter has become naturalised on many 

 of our pasture lands. 



Lucerne (Medicago sativa). 



Growing about Brisbane in the early sixties. 



The followins: have been introduced on account of 

 their reputation in other countris for bearing pods suitable 



