104 AUSTRALIAN GRASSES AND PASTURE PLANTS 



duration has been cultivated with some success, and is a 

 useful pasture plant. 



White Clover (Trifolium repens) is a very prominent plant 

 in many pastures in the dairying districts ; the seeds in many 

 instances having been disseminated by cattle, for their vitality 

 is not impaired by the process of digestion. During spring 

 some pastures are literally white with the flowers of this clover. 

 It has a creeping habit, rooting at every joint that comes in 

 contact with the ground, and producing a fair amount of 

 nutritious herbage of which all kinds of stock are remarkably 

 fond and on which they thrive. Several other kinds of clover 

 are becoming naturalised in some pastures in the more 

 favoured districts, and are useful forage plants. 



MISCELLANEOUS AND FORAGE PLANTS. 



Burner, sometimes called Sheep Burnet (Poterium 

 sanguisorba), is a rather tall-growing plant with a long tap- 

 root which penetrates deeply into friable soils, and is thus 

 enabled to withstand a long period of dry weather without 

 its growth being checked to any serious extent. It is grown 

 on land termed (loose granitic country), with success as sheep 

 pasture, these animals fattening on the ample herbage. 



The following plants are occasionally cultivated for winter 

 feed for stock : Cattle Cabbage, Chou Moellier, Rape, and 

 Thousand Headed Kale all members of the Cabbage family. 

 Cattle Melon, Cattle Pumpkin, Cow Pea, Swede Turnip, and 

 similar useful plants have also received attention. Oats and 

 Wheat are more largely cultivated for hay than any other 

 cereals. 



