78 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



grass, one of our best acquisitions. Very early out in the season for 

 fodder. Kept alive in the hottest and driest parts of Central- 

 Australia, where it was first introduced by the writer of this work. 

 When other grasses are failing in many places in winter, this 

 Bromus sustains in New England well the pasture-animals [R. 

 MacFarland]. In Norway it comes to perfection up to lat 67 55 

 [Schuebeler]. Chemical analysis in early spring gave: albumen, 

 2-80; gluten, 3'80 ; starch, 3'30 ; gum, 1'70; sugar, 2'30 per cent. 

 [F. v. Mueller and L Hummel]. 



Broussonetia papyrifera, Ventenat. 



The " Paper-Mulberry -tree." Islands of the Pacific Ocean, China, 

 Japan, perhaps only truly indigenous in the last-named country. 

 Attains a maximum height of 40 feet; hardy in the milder regions 

 of Middle Europe. The bark can be converted into very strong 

 paper. It can also be used for textile fabrics ; furthermore, the cloth 

 made from it can be dressed with linseed-oil for waterproof 

 coverings. In cultivation the plant is kept like an osier. The leaves 

 cannot be used for silkworms. European fabrics have largely super- 

 seded the clothing made of this plant in the South-Sea-Islands. 



Bnchloe dactyloides, Engelznann. 



The true Buffalo- grass of Kansas, also known as one of the 

 mesquite-gr asses, naturally extending from Canada to Texas, form- 

 ing a large proportion of the food of the buffaloes 011 the prairies. 

 [Engelmann] . Dioecious, creeping, only rising to half a foot or less, 

 but overpowering the Boutelouas. It is extremely fattening, but 

 apt to be suppressed by coarser grasses on ground, where these are 

 not trampled out or kept down by pasture-animals. One of the 

 best of summer-grasses, resisting also some frost. 



Buddlea Asiatica, Loureiro. 



Continental and insular India up to 7,000 feet, thence to China, 

 the Philippines and New Guinea. Shrub, attaining to 15 feet; 

 eligible for ornamental copses ; flowers produced in profusion, sweet- 

 scented. B. variabilis (Hemsley) is among the Chinese species 

 one of the most ornamental. 



Suddlea Colvillei, J. Hooker and Thomson. 



Himalayan mountains, at elevations of 9,000 to 12,000 feet. One 

 of the hardiest of all species, attaining a height of 20 feet, but not 

 so quick of growth as some other kinds. Extremely handsome, 

 with its masses of dark crimson flowers [Gamble]. 



Suddlea g-lobosa, Lamarck. 



Andes of Chili and Peru. Withstands the winter-cold of Arran. 

 The author has in this as in very few other instances broken 

 through the rule, adopted for this work, not to accept into it any 



