34 Select Plants for Industrial Cidtivre 



Anthemis tinctoria, Linne". 



Middle and Southern Europe, Orient. An annual herb. The 

 flowers contain a yellow dye. 



Anthistiria avenacea, F. v. Mueller. 



Extra-tropical and Central Australia. A nutritious, perennial 

 pasture-grass. Called by Mr. Bailey " one of the most productive 

 grasses of Australia"; it produces a large amount of bottom-fodder, 

 and it has also the advantage of being a prolific seeder, while it 

 endures a hot, dry clime. 



Anthistiria ciliata, Linne" fil. (Anthistiria Australia, R. Brown.) 



The well-known " Kangaroo-grass," not confined to Australia, but 

 stretching through Southern Asia also and through the whole of 

 Africa; perennial, nutritious, comparatively hardy, ascending to sub- 

 alpine elevations. Chemical analysis of this grass during its spring- 

 growth gave the following result: Albumen, 2*05; gluten, 4-67; 

 starch, 0-69; gum, 1'67; sugar, 3*06 per cent. (F. v. Mueller and L. 

 Hummel.) Several species of Anthistiria occur variously dispersed 

 from South- Africa to Japan, deserving introduction and naturaliza- 

 tion into countries of warm-temperate or tropical climates. 



Anthistiria membranacea, Lindley. 



Interior of Australia. Esteemed as fattening ; seeds freely 

 (Bailey). Particularly fitted for dry, hot pastures, even of desert- 

 regions. 



Anthoxanthum odoratum, Linne. 



The " Scented Vernal-grass." Europe, Northern and Middle Asia, 

 North-Africa. Found wild in Norway to lat. 71 7' (Schuebeler). 

 Perennial, and not of great value as a fattening grass, yet always 

 desired for the flavor, which it imparts to hay. Perhaps for this 

 purpose the scented Andropogons might also serve. On deep and 

 moist soils it attains its greatest perfection. It is much used for 

 mixing among permanent grasses in pastures, where it will continue 

 long in season. Discarded as a pasture- or hay-grass by Professor 

 Hackel, liked by many as an admixture to lawn-grasses. It would 

 live well in any alpine region. Dr. Curl observes, that in New Zealand 

 it grows all the winter, spring and autumn, and is a good feeding- 

 grass. The lamellar crystalline cumarin is the principle, on which 

 the odor of Authoxanthum depends. 



Anthriscus Cerefolium, Hoffmann. 



Europe and Western Asia. The Chervil. An annual culinary 

 plant; its herbage used as an aromatic condiment, but the root is 

 seemingly deleterious. The plant requires in hot countries a shady 

 situation (Vilmorin); the foliage forms the principal ingredient of 

 of what in France is called " fines herbes." 



