PLANTS OF RABBIT-INFESTED COUNTRY, 8.Q. 451 
COMPOSITE. 
Among the plants of this order were : 
Gnephosis cyathopappa, Benth., a rigid slender corymbosely- 
branched plant of a few inches high with bronzy coloured globular 
heads of flowers. Found on the Mulga ridges. 
Centipeda orbicularis, F.v.M., var. lanuginosa. 
Helichrysum apiculatum, DC., with very bright yellow flowers 
and exceedingly woolly stems, and 
Minuria integerrima, Benth. 
OLEACEZ, 
Jasminum lineare, R..Br. The bark of this plant was much 
eaten by rabbits on the sandhills at Koopa. 
GENTIANEX. 
Erythrea australis, R. Br., the bushman’s headache cure, with 
its pretty pink flowers was very common. 
CONVOLVULACES. 
That pretty blue-flowered Evolvulus—Z. alsinoides, var. sericeus. 
SOLANACE. 
The two Solanums common in the district are S. chenopodium, 
F.v.M., and S. esuriale, Lindl. The fruit of the latter is used 
by the natives. 
Nicotiana suaveolens, Lehm. The native tobacco, was growing 
very abundantly at Cooliata. 
SCROPHULARINE. 
In the sand at the side of a large dried-up lagoon was a dense 
growth of Mimulus prostratus, Benth. So numerous were the 
blue flowers on this little plant that from a distance it gave the 
appearance of water. 
Another species of the genus Jf. gracilis, R. Br., was also met 
with, but is by no means as pretty as the last-mentioned. 
MYOPORINE. 
The Eremophilas are well represented, there being EF. bignonie- 
flora, F.v.M., called by the natives “Quirramurrah.” Cattle 
seem fond of this species, and the rabbits which were confined for 
experimental purposes preferred the leaves and young shoots to 
any other plant. The plant when bruised or burned has a very 
disagreeable odour. 
