46 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



Atriplex halimoides, Lindley. 



Gregarious over the greater part of the saline desert-interior of 

 Australia, reaching the South- and West-coasts. A dwarf bush, with 

 its frequent companion, A. holocarpum (F. v. M.), among the very 

 best for saltbush-pasture. All readily raised from seeds. 



Atriplex hortense, Dodoens. 



Northern and Middle Asia. The " Arroche." An annual spin- 

 age-plant. Hardy in Norway to lat. 70 (Schuebeler). 



Atriplex Muelleri, Bentham. 



Interior of Australia, reaching the South- and West-coasts. Cattle 

 and especially sheep are so fond of it, that they often browse it to the 

 root. This species approaches in its characteristics closely to A. 

 roseum (Linne) from Europe, Northern Africa and Western Asia; 

 which thus perhaps may be of greater rural significance also, than 

 hitherto supposed. 



Atriplex immmularium, 



From Queensland through the desert-tracks to Victoria and South- 

 Australia. One of the tallest and most fattening and wholesome of 

 Australian pastoral salt-bushes. Sheep and cattle, pastured on salt- 

 bush-country, are said not only to remain free 'of fluke, but to recover 

 from this Distoma-disease and other allied ailments. 



Atriplex semibaccatum, B. Brown. 



Extra-tropic Australia. A perennial herb, very much liked by 

 sheep (R. H. Andrews), thus considered among the best of saline 

 herbage of the saltbush-country. 



Atriplex sponglosum, F. v. Mueller. 



Through a great part of Central Australia, extending to the South- 

 and West-coast. Available, like the preceding and several other 

 species, for saltbush-culture. Unquestionably some of the shrubby 

 extra-Australian species, particularly those of the Siberian and Cali- 

 fornian steppes, could also be transferred advantageously to sub- 

 saline country elsewhere, to increase its value, particularly for sheep- 

 pasture. 



Atriplex vesicarium, Hewerd. 



In the interior of South -Eastern and Central Australia. One of the 

 most fattening and most relished of all the dwarf pastoral salt-bushes 

 of Australia, holding out in the utmost extremes of drought, and not 

 scorched even by sirocco-like blasts. Its vast abundance over ex- 

 tensive saltbush-plains of the Australian interior, to the exclusion of 

 almost every other bush except A. halimoides, indicates the facility, 

 with which this species disseminates itself. Splendid wool is pro- 

 duced in regions, where A. vesicarium and A. halimoides almost 

 monopolize the ground for enormous stretches. With other woody 

 species easily multiplied from cuttings also. 



