114 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



Cytisus prolifereus, Linne" fil. 



Canary-Islands. The " Tagasaste." A fodder-shrub for light dry- 

 soil; rather intolerant to frost (Dyer). 



CJytlsus SCOparius, Link. (Spartium scoparium, Linne". ) 



The Broom-Bush. Europe, North-Asia ; wild in Norway to 58 N. 

 Of less significance as a broom-plant than as one of medicinal value. 

 It can also be used for tanning purposes. Most valuable for arresting 

 drift-sand. Easily raised from seeds. An alkaloid (spartein) and a 

 yellow dye (scoparin) are obtainable from this shrub. 



Cytisus spinosus, Lamarck. 



Countries around the Mediterranean Sea. This bush forms a 

 strong prickly garden-hedge, handsome when closely clipped (W. 

 Elliott). 



Dacrydium Colensoi, Hooker. 



New Zealand. A beautiful tree, growing to 50 feet in height and 

 producing hard and incorruptible timber. Chiefly eligible for cool 

 humid forest-regions. 



Dacrydium cupressinum, Solander. 



New Zealand. Native name, Rimu; the Red Pine of the colonists. 

 This stately tree attains the height of 200 feet, and furnishes a hard 

 and valuable wood, very lasting for fences, but readily decaying in 

 water- works. Professor Kirk recommends the timber on account of 

 its great strength for girders and heavy beams anywhere under cover. 

 With other New Zealand conifers particularly eligible for forest- 

 valleys. A most suitable tree for cemeteries, on account of its pen- 

 dulous branches. The bark possesses fair tan-properties. 



Dacrydium Franklini, J. Hooker. 



Huon-pine of Tasmania, where it is endemic; only found in moist 

 forest-recesses, and thus might be planted in ferntree-gullies of South- 

 Eastern Australia also. Height of tree sometimes 100 feet; stem- 

 circumference reaching 20 feet. The wood is highly esteemed for 

 boat-building and various artisans' work. It is the best of Australian 

 woods for carving, also extensively used for the rougher kinds of 

 xylography and in the manufacture of pianos. 



Dacrydium Kirkii, F. v. Mueller. 



New Zealand. The " Manoao." A pyramidal tree, attaining 80 

 feet in height; stem-diameter to 4 feet. Timber of a reddish color 

 and extreme durability (Professor Kirk). Bears seeds abundantly. 



Dactylis glomerata, Linne".* 



Europe, North-Africa, Northern and Middle Asia. The Cocks- 

 foot-grass. One of the best of perennial tall pasture-grasses, adapted 

 as well for dry as moist soil, thus even available for wet clays. It 

 will live under the shade of trees in forests; fit also for coast-sands. 

 It is indigenous in Norway to lat. 68 50' (Schuebeler). Its yield of 



