28 SELECT PLANTS FOR INDUSTRIAL CULTURE 



plant and particularly valuable for green fodder. The panicles 

 are used for carpet-brooms, the fibrous roots for velvet-brushes. A 

 kind of beer called " Merisa" is prepared from the seed. Many 

 others of the numerous species of Andropogon, from both 

 hemispheres, deserve our attention. 



Anemone Pulsatilla, Linne. 



Europe and Northern Asia. On limestone soil. This pretty 

 perennial herb is of some medicinal importance. 



Angophora intermedia, Candolle. 



South-East Australia. This is one of the best of the Angophoras, 

 attaining a large size, and growing with the rapidity of an Euca- 

 lyptus, but being more close and shady in its foliage. It would 

 be a good tree to line public roads and to effect shelter plantations. 

 The Rev. J. Tennison- Woods states that it is not rarely over 150 

 feet high ; that the wood is hard, bearing dampness well, and very 

 tough ; but that the many kino veins lessen its usefulness. It is 

 employed for boards and wheels. Mr. Kirton observes that a single 

 tree of this species, or of A. lanceolata, will yield as much as two 

 gallons of liquid kino. Timber useful when extra-toughness is to 

 be combined with lightness (Reader). 



Angophora subvelutina, F. v. Mueller. 



Queensland and New South Wales. Attains a height of 100 feet. 

 The wood is light and tough, soft while green, very hard when dry, 

 used for wheel-naves, bullock-yokes, handles, &c. ; it burns well and 

 contains a large proportion of potash (Hartmann). According to 

 Messrs. Bailey and Kirton, as much as two gallons of liquid kino 

 can sometimes be obtained from a single tree of Angophora lanceo- 

 lata. 



Anona Cherimolia, Miller. 



From Mexico to Peru. One of the Custard- Apples. This shrub 

 or tree might be tried in the frostless forest-valleys, where humidity 

 and rich soil will prove favourable to its growth. It is hardy in 

 the mildest coast regions of Spain. It yields the Cherimoyer fruit. 

 The flowers are very fragrant. 



Anthemis nobilis, Linne. 



The true Camomile. Middle and South Europe, North Africa. A 

 well-known medicinal plant, frequently used as edgings for garden 

 plots. Flowers in their normal state are preferable for medicinal 

 use to those in which the ray flowers are produced in increased 

 numbers. They contain a peculiar volatile oil and two acids similar 

 to angelic and valerianic acid. 



