PLANTS OF RABBIT-INFESTED COUNTRY, §.Q. 449 
FRANKENIACER. 
Two varieties of Frankenia pauciflora, DC., viz., serpyllifolia 
and thymoides were growing in sand on the edge of a large lagoon. 
Both have pretty pink flowers, but are of quite different habits, 
the former lying flat on the ground, while the other is erect. 
PORTULACEX, 
Portulaca. oleracea, Linn.—A large-flowering variety of this 
common garden weed was very abundant. The natives use the 
seed and also the whole plant for food, and at times even bushmen 
use it in the latter form. 
MALVACES. 
Abutilon Fraseri, Hook., with its large yellow flowers, looked 
very gay among the smaller kinds of salt-bush. 
MELIACE. 
Owenia acidula, F.v.M. The Emu Apple or Grewie of the 
natives. Clumps of these trees in both flower and fruit were 
occasionally seen. They form very handsome trees, having dense 
dome-like heads, and branch out about 7 feet from the ground. 
Probably this is due to their lower branches being cropped by 
stock, and as no young plants were seen they evidently eat these 
also. Plate XXII. 
SAPINDACEA, 
Atalaya hemiglauca, F.v.M. The “White Wood,” is very 
abundant throughout the district, and according to report is often 
cut down, in times of drought, as food for cattle, but is said not 
to be over-relished by them. It was occasionally seen in flower, 
but most of the trees were covered with the curious winged fruit 
of the genus. Plate XXIII. 
Dodonea attenuata, A. Cunn. Oue of the so-called hop-bushes 
was growing in great profusion on the sandy ridges at Dilltoppa, 
and the sandhills at Koopa and Cooliatta. The rabbits seem very 
fond of the bark, for we found it stripped to some considerable 
distance from the ground, with the result that most of the trees so 
treated die. 
LEGUMINOSE. 
Psoralea patens, Lindl. Small plants of these were seen. Ac- 
cording to E. Palmer, the natives obtain a fibre from the stems. 
Two Cassias were met with rather frequently, viz.:— 
Cassia eremophila, A. Cunn., with long narrow leaves and 
brown pods, and Cassia phyllodinea, R.Br., with silvery leaves 
and bright yellow flowers, the perfume of the latter, when fresh, 
reminding one of the heliotrope of our gardens. 
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