120 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



analysis will determine their nutritive value, though the degree of 

 liking of such grasses by pasture-animals can only be found out by 

 rural tests. 



Chlorogalum pomeridianum, Kunth. 



California, frequent on mountains. This lily-like plant attains a 

 height of 8 feet. The heavy bulb is covered with many coatings, 

 consisting of fibres, which are used for cushions and mattresses ; 

 contracts are entered into for the supply of this material on a rather 

 extensive scale [Professor Bolander], The inner part of the bulb 

 serves as a substitute for soap, and the possibility of utilizing it for 

 technological purposes, like the root of Saponaria, might be tested, as 

 it contains saponiu. 



Chloroxylon Swietenia, Be Candolle. 



The Satin-wood. Mountains of India. Like the allied Flindersias, 

 possibly this tree would prove hardy in sheltered places of milder 

 extra-tropic latitudes, the cognate Cedrela australis advancing in 

 East-Australia southward to the 36th degree. A resin, valuable for 

 varnishes, exudes from the stem and branches. 



Choiromyces maeandrifonnis, Vittadini. (Rhizopogon magnatum, Corda.) 

 In Middle Europe one of the most frequent and best-tasted 

 truffles, sold with R. rubescens (Tulasne). 



Chondrus crispus, Stockhouse. 



Shores of the Northern Atlantic Ocean. "Caragaheen." This 

 well-known alg yields a nutritious and palatable gelatine on boiling, 

 and has thus become even of some therapeutic importance. The 

 ready steam-communication all over the world affords doubtless now 

 the opportunity of carrying also highly useful algs widely from 

 shore to shore in portable aquaria. In Australia the Eucheuma 

 speciosum, Gracilaria lichenoides (J. Agardh) and Gelidium glandu- 

 lifolium (Harvey) are marine jelly-weeds, well deserving of wide 

 translocation. Algs can be preserved for scientific examination by 

 being packed in kitchen-salt. 



Chrysanthemum cinerarifolium, Boccone. (Pyrethrum dnerarifolium, 

 Trevisan. ) 



Austria. Furnishes the Dalmatian insecticidal powder. It is 

 superior even to the Persian powder as an insecticide ; it will keep 

 for years. Effectually cultivated on the lower Latrobe-River on a 

 large scale by Mr. P. Kisettle, the powder prepared from the Gipps- 

 land plant proving very powerful [J. Knight]. It is prepared from 

 half-opened flowers, gathered during dry weather and exsiccated 

 under cover. Best applied in puffs from a tube. To be used also 

 against aphides [W. Saunders. See further U.S. Agricultural 

 Report for 1881-2.] Serves to keep fresh meat for days from 

 decay. 



