202 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



Maples. The flowers yield to bees much honey; indeed Mr. Lang- 

 stroth speaks of the Tulip-tree as one of the greatest honey -producers 

 in the world; as its large flowers expand in succession, new swarms 

 will sometimes fill their hives from this source alone. 



Lithospermum canescens, Lehmann. 



North- American Alkanet. This, as the vernacular name indicates,, 

 offers a dye-root. 



Lithospermum hirturn, Lehmann. 



North- American Alkanna. A showy perennial herb; the root 

 yields a red dye. 



Lithospermum longinorum, Sprengel. 



North- America. A red pigment can also be extracted from the 

 root of this species. 



Livistona Australis, Martius. 



East- Australia. The only Palm-tree in Victoria, occurring in East- 

 Grippsland (in the latitude of Melbourne), and there attaining a height 

 of about 80 feet. It endures the winters of South-France to 43 32' 

 north lat. (Naudin). The young leaves can be plaited as a material for 

 cabbage-tree hats. The seeds (of which about 200 are contained in 

 one pound) retain their vitality far better than those of the Australian 

 Ptychospermas. This palm can be transferred from its native haunts 

 to very long distances for growth, by previously separating the main 

 portion of the root from the soil, and leaving the plant for some 

 months on the original spot, so as to remove it finally with new root- 

 lets, retaining much soil. Some of the Indian Livistonas may be 

 equally hardy; their stems often tower above the other forest-trees. 



Livistona Chinensis, R. Brown, 



South-China and Japan. A very decorative Fan-palm, and one of 

 the hardiest of the whole order. In its native country, the hairy 

 stem-covering of this palm is used for fixing lime-plaster to buildings 

 (Christie). 



Livistona Leichhardtii, F. v. Mueller. 



North-Australia. Under this name might be combined L. inermis 

 and L. humilis (K. Brown), neither name applying well to this 

 finally tall palm with thorny leaf-stalks. The author of this work as 

 well as Dr. Leichhardt saw it far inland in dry open not mountainous 

 regions also; nevertheless it may need a moister clime than the 

 following species. 



Livistona Marise, F. v. Mueller. 



Central and West- Australia, barely within the tropics. This noble 

 Fan-palm attains 40 feet in height, and is likely to prove very hardy. 



Lolium perenne. Linne.* 



Europe, North- Africa, Western Asia. The well known perennial 

 Rye-grass, mentioned here for the sake of completeness. In Norway 





