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little chance to recuperate or produce seed for its natural repro- 

 duction. This salt-bush is easily raised from seed and it can be 

 readily propagated by cuttings made of the half-ripened wood and 

 put in the ground in the ordinary way. It is well worth encourag- 

 ing on the littoral sands, which it would help to bind and prevent 

 being carried inland by the fury of the winds that blow from the 

 ocean. 



Rhagoditi iiiittins, R. Br. " Nodding salt-bush." 

 FK;. i. Enlarged drawing of the fruit. 



iiiituns (R. Br. " Salt-bush"). This is a herbaceous, 

 prostrate or procumbent plant, with slender stems usually spreading 

 from one foot to three or more feet long. The leaves are opposite, or 

 here and there alternate, arranged on slender stalks, and somewhat 

 variable in shape, but generally broadly hastate, with prominent basal 

 lobes, the lower ones about one inch long, but the upper ones get 

 gradually smaller towards the inflorescence. Whilst young the foliage is 

 more or less mealy white. Where this plant is not too closely fed down 

 its prostrate stems often carpet the ground for a considerable distance, 



