178 SELECT PLANTS FOR INDUSTRIAL CULTURE 



Leyssera gnaphalioides, Linne. 



South Africa. A perennial herb of aromatic scent and taste. 

 Much used there as a medicinal tea. 



Liatris odoratissima, Willdenow. 



Southern States of Northern America, A perennial herb occur- 

 ing on swampy places. The leaves are sometimes used, for the sake 

 of their aromatic odour, to flavour tobacco and other substances. 

 (Saunders). 



Libocedrus Chilensis, Endlicher. 



In cold valleys on the Southern Andes of Chili, 2,000 to 5,000 

 feet. A fine tree, 80 feet high, furnishing a hard resinous wood 

 of a yellowish colour. 



Libocedrus decurrens, Torrey. 



White Cedar of California, growing on high mountains, in fine 

 groves up to 5,000 feet, in what Hinchcliff calls the noblest zone 

 of Coniferse of the globe. Attains a height of fully 200 feet, with 

 a stem 25 feet in circumference. The wood is light and strong, 

 used for exquisite cabinet-work, but also suitable for fence-rails, 

 &c. According to Dr. Gibbons the tree is well adapted for wind- 

 brakes, and can be trained into tall hedges. 



Libocedrus Doniana, Endlicher. 



North Island of New Zealand, up to 6,000 feet elevation. A 

 forest-tree, 100 feet high, stem 3 feet and more in diameter. The 

 wood is hard and resinous, of a dark reddish colour, fine-grained, 

 excellent for planks and spars. 



Libocedrus tetragona, Endlicher.* 



On the Andes of North Chili, at an elevation of 2,000 to 5,000 

 feet, growing so far south as Magellan's Straits, especially in moist 

 moory localities. This species has a very straight stem and grows 

 120 feet high. The wood, though soft and light, is resinous, and 

 will resist underground decay for a century and more, like that of 

 Fitzroya Patagonica ; for railway -sleepers this timber is locally 

 preferred to any other (Dr. Philippi) ; it is also highly esteemed for 

 various artisans' work ; it is quite white. 



Ligustrum Japonicum, Thunberg. 



The Japan Privet. A shrub, evergreen or nearly so, promising to 

 become a valuable hedge-plant. It grows like the ordinary Euro- 

 pean Privet readily from cuttings. Both will grow under trees 

 where scarcely anything else would live (Johnson). 



