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vators abroad. The native Cypress Pine {Callitris verrucosa)^ a tree easUy and 
rapidly growing in sandy soil, yields a kind of Sandarach resin. The myrtace- 
ous trees and shrubs are all more or less rich in ethereal oil, which in many 
instances greatly resembles the medicinal Cajnpiit oil. Mucali/ptns amt/gdalina 
has yielded nearly 4 lb. of oil from 100 lb. of fresh leaves ; several other species 
yield also a large return of oil, which has proved most useful for admixture 
with other essential oils in the manufacture of soaps. Melaleuca linearifoUa 
has furnished If lb. from 100 lb. of leaves and branchlets. These oils have 
attracted attention as not only medicinally valuable, but also as solvents for 
various kinds of superior varnish resin, and for illuminating power (vide 
Jurors' Report of the Victorian Exhibition of 1861). As medicinal products 
the astringent gum-resins of various Eucalypti likewise deserve attention, all 
species exuding more or less of this substance. There are plants in this 
country yielding excellent substitutes for the following dnigs : Gratiola, Me- 
zereum'. Winter's Bark, Mint, Gentian, Lobeha, Althsea, etc. — Fapers of 
Victorian AcclltHatization Socielj/, 
CrLiKAEY Vegetables, Frfit, and Forage Plants iNniGENors xo 
ViCTOEiA. — There are three kinds of Spinach. One of these, Tetragonia im- 
^lexlooma is a littoral plant, and for practical purposes similar to the well- 
known New Zealand Spinach. It is perennial, expanding and climbing to a 
wide extent, and might be advantageously transferred to every sandy and 
rocky seashore of the globe, wherever it will prove hardy. Seeds are very 
seldom obtained, and hence the plant has to be exported in a living state. 
The second is identical with the New Zealand Spinach, Tetragonia expansa ; 
it belongs not only to the Victorian sandy coast, but also to the desert. By 
means of seeds it can without difficulty be introduced, as is well known, into 
other countries ; it occurs wild also on the subtropical east coast of Australia, 
and therefore might be introduced into hot climates. The third kind of Spinach 
alluded to is that of Ch^nopodium auricomum. This plant is still more valuable 
than the TetragonicBy being more palatable and nutritive ; it grows also in 
tropical Australia, and will thus endure the climate of many warm parts of the 
globe. Of fruit plants we have scarcely any deserving introduction elyewhere, 
unless perhaps the Quandang, Sa^itahim acuminatttm ; tor although it is far 
inferior to the ordinary fruits commonly under cultivation, the fact of its being 
a desert plant, not becoming parched by Skocco-hke winds, entitles it to con- 
sideration. Of forage plants we have some excellent grasses, well deserving of 
introduction abroad; thus for countries of warm climate the perennial Kan- 
garoo-grass, AntMstiria Atistralis^ would be eligible, as well as Pamcnm de- 
compositum^ and several other grasses, chiefly belonging to the genera Fanicum^ 
Danthonia, and Agrosiis, of which seeds can be obtained ^vith ease. An ex- 
cellent tender Swamp Grass is DantJionia nervosa^ and a splendid Forest Grass 
the recently discovered Festuca dives. For countries with a colder climafe 
three of our taller and yet tender-leaved Alpine Grasses might advantageously 
be selected, viz. Festuca Hookeriana, Banthonia robusta, and Hierochloe 
antarcfica, — Papers of the Acclimzatiation Societg of Victoria, 
New Tear's Eve, oh Hogmanay.— The Hogmanay, as the ceremonies and 
