PLANTS ©F RABBIT-INFESTED COUNTRY, 8.Q. 453 
The Bluebush, Chenopodium auricomum, Lindl., furnishes good 
fodder, and is eagerly sought after by cattle. Plate XX. 
Fine bushes of Rhagodia spinescens, R. Br., were growing about 
Dilltoppa, Koopa, and Cooliata. We found that the rabbits 
ringbarked the stems and burrowed under these plants more than 
any other, and by so doing they threaten to eradicate all the use- 
ful fodder-plants from the above-mentioned places. Other species 
of this genus met with were 2. nutans, R. Br., and 2. parabolica, 
R. Br., the latter having a most disagreeable taste and odour. 
Other plants of this order noticed were Salsola kali, Linn., and 
its variety strobilifera, and that most disagreeable plant Sclerolena 
bicornis (Lindl.), the fruits of which are furnished with strong 
spines. 
POLYGONACES. 
The principal plant of the river-side is the ‘‘ Lignum ” Jfwehlen- 
beckia Cunninghamii, F.v.M. This forms dense masses and is 
used as food and shelter by the rabbits. Cattle and horses are 
also fond of the plant and eat most of the leaves, so that bare 
stems are only seen, but these with the advent of a shower of 
rain again burst into leaf. (Plates XXIV and XXV.) 
Another plant of this order, viz., Polygonum plebeiwm, R.Br., 
grows in similar situations. 
PROTEACE. 
One of the most attractive shrubs of the district is Hakea 
lewcoptera, R.Br., one of the needle-bushes. The growth is very 
even and dense, and branches right to the ground. Hakea lorea, 
R.Br., also grows in the district, and forms a graceful tree with 
cord-like leaves, which on some trees are forked. 
Splendid trees of the Beef-wood, Grevillea striata, R. Br., grow 
in these parts. Most of them were in full flower. The gum, 
mixed with the ashes of species of Acacia, probably A. salicina, 
var. varians, is used by the natives for affixing spear-heads, &c. 
(Plate XXII.) 
LORANTHACE. 
A Loranthus, viz., L. Quandang, Lindl., with bright red flowers, 
was growing in large masses on the whitewood (Atalaya hemi- 
glauca). (Plate XXIII.) 
SANTALACE. 
Santalum lanceolatum, R.Br., grows throughout the district, 
but is not at all scented. 
