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in use there as a cultivated spinach plant. The fruits furnish 

 a red dye. The genus Blitum was reduced to Chenopodium 

 by the writer in Caruel's Giornale Botanico some years ago and 

 in 1864 by Dr. Ascherson, who gave to B. virgatum the name 

 Chenopodium f oliosum. C. capitatum, Ascherson (Blitum capi- 

 tatum, Linne), may not be really a distinct species. C. Quinoa, 

 Willdenow, from Chili, deserves hardly recommendation for cul- 

 ture, though a nutritious spinach, it being apt to stray as a weed 

 into cultivated fields. Some of these sorts of plants are useful 

 to anglers, as attracting fish, when thrown into rivers or lakes. 



Chionanche cyathopoda, F. v. Mueller. 



Tropical and Eastern sub- tropical Australia. With C. barbata 

 of India and Queensland a valuable fodder grass. 



Chloris truncata, R. Brown. 



The Windmill Grass. South-Eastern Australia, as far south as 

 Port Phillip. This perennial and showy grass is regarded by 

 Mr. Walter Bissill as an excellent summer and autumn grass, 

 of ready growth and relished by grazing animals. C. ventricosa 

 (R. Br.) is another valuable East Australian species. 



Chlorogalum pomeridianum, Kunth. 



California, frequent on the mountains. This lily-like plant 

 attains a height of 8 feet. The heavy bulb is covered with 

 many coatings, consisting of fibres, which are used for cushions, 

 mattresses, &c. ; large contracts are entered into for the supply 

 of this material on a very extensive scale (Professor Bolander) . 

 The inner part of the bulb serves as a substitute for soap, and 

 it might be tried whether it can be utilised for technological 

 purposes like the root of Saponaria, as it contains saponin. 



Chloroxylon Swietenia, Candolle. 



The Satin Wood. Mountains of India. Like the allied Flind- 

 ersias, possibly this tree would prove hardy even in cool 

 sheltered places, the cognate Cedrela Taona advancing in East 

 Australia southward to the 35th degree. A resin, valuable for 

 varnishes, exudes from the stem and branches. 



Chrysanthemum roseum, Adam. (Pyrethrum roseum, Bieb.) 



Sub-alpine South-West Asia. This perennial herb, with C. 

 coronopifolium, Willdenow, yields the Persian insect-powder. 



Cicer arietinum, Linne. 



South Europe and Orient. The Gram or Chick Pea. An 



