38 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



Archangelica officinalis, Hoffmann. 



Arctic zone and mountain-regions of many parts of Europe. The 

 young shoots and leaf-stalks of this biennial herb are used for 

 Angelica-confectionery; the roots are of medicinal use, and likewise 

 they are chosen as well as the fruitlets for the distillation of some 

 cordials. Hardy in Norway to lat. 71 10' (Shcuebeler). In any 

 sub-alpine regions this plant would particularly establish its value. 

 The surprisingly gigantic Angelica ursina (Regel; Angelophyllum 

 ursinum, Ruprecht) forms a conspicuous feature in the landscape of 

 Kamtschatka and Sachalin. It is delineated on plate XVI. of Lindley 

 and Moore's Treasury of Botany; it ought to become an important 

 plant for annual scenic culture. 



Arctostaphylos uva ursi, Sprengel. 



Europe, Northern Asia and North- America, in colder regions, 

 extending to the arctics. A medicinal small shrub, which could best 

 be reared in the heath-moors of alpine tracts. Valuable also as a 

 honey-yielding plant (Cook). 



Arenga saccharifera, La Billardtere. 



India, Cochinchina, Philippines and also most Southern Japan 

 (Doederlein). This Palm attains a height of 40 feet. The black 

 fibres of the leaf-stalks are adapted for cables and ropes, intended to 

 resist wet very long. The juice convertible into toddy or sugar; 

 the young kernels made with syrup into preserves. This Palm 

 dies off as soon as it has produced its fruit; the stem then becomes 

 hollow, and can be used for spouts and troughs of great durability. 

 The pith supplies sago, about 150 Ibs. from a tree, according to 

 Roxburgh. 



Argania Sideroxylon, Roemer and Schultes. 



Western Barbary, on dry hills. " The Argan-tree." Its growth 

 is generally slow, but it is a long-lived tree. Though comparatively 

 low in stature, its foliage occasionally spreads to a circumference of 

 220 feet. It sends out suckers from the root. The fruit serves as 

 food for cattle in Morocco; but in Australia the kernels would be 

 more likely to be utilized by pressing an oil from them. Height of 

 tree exceptionally 70 feet. 



Aristida prodigiosa, Welwitsch.* 



Angola, on the driest sand-hills. A perennial fodder-grass, of 

 which the discoverer speaks in glowing terms of praise. In the 

 West- African desert-country, in places devoid of almost all other 

 vegetation, the zebras, antelopes and hares resort with avidity to this 

 grass; it also affords there in the dry season almost the only fodder 

 for domestic grazing animals. Moreover, this seems to indicate, that 

 the closely cognate A. plumosa, L. and A. ciliata, Desf., of the 

 countries at or near the Mediterranean Sea,, might likewise be en- 

 couraged in their natural growth or be cultivated. All feathery 



