Naturalisation in Extra-Topical Countries. SD' 



Atriplex XKuelleri, Bentharn. 



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, North- Africa and Western 

 Asia ; which thus perhaps may be of greater rural significance also, 

 than hitherto supposed. 



Atriplex nummularium, Lindley.* 



From Queensland through the desert-tracts to Victoria and 

 South-Australia. One of the tallest, most fattening and wholesome 

 of Australian pastoral salt-bushes, but not so much relished by 

 grazing animals as some of the smaller species. Sheep and cattle, 

 pastured on salt-bush country, are said to remain not only free from 

 fluke, but to recover from this Distoma-disease and other allied 

 ailments. 



Atriplex semibaccatum, E. 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 salt-bush country. Mr. Will. Farrer pronounces 

 this herb as wonderful for its productiveness and its drought -resisting 

 power. 



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 salt- bush culture of particular nutritiveness. 

 Unquestionably some of the shrubby extra- Australian species, par- 

 ticularly those of the Siberian and Californian steppes, could also 

 be transferred advantageously to subsaline country elsewhere, to' 

 increase its value, particularly for sheep-pasture. 



Atriplex stipitatum, Bentham. 



Interior of South-Eastern Australia. Considered a good kind 

 among dwarf salt-bushes for pastoral purposes [Duncan Love]. 

 A. velutinellum (F. v. M.), of South Australia and New South Wales, 

 is another valuable species, according to Mr. F. Turner. Mr. W. A. 

 Dixon found 92 per cent, of digestible substances in the allied A. 

 angulatum. 



Atriplex vesicariurn, Heward.* 



In the interior of South-Eastern and in 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 extensive salt-bush plains of the Australian interior, to the 

 exclusion of almost every other bush except A. halimoides, indicates 



