NATURAL ORDER. 



COMPOSITE. 



IN this class of the botanical kingdom one has the most widely distributed plants in the whole world, species 

 being found at all altitudes and in all climes. Only rarely do they attain tree size, and, of course, Australia possesses 

 this exception in an Olearia (Aster), viz. : Olearia argophylla, the Musk of the Coast district. This Compositae attains 

 tree size, and produces an attractive timber of a fawn colour, and a very ornamental root stock. The odour from 

 which it takes its common name is found in the leaves, but so far has not yet been isolated. 



SPECIES ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR : 



Musk (Olearia argophylla, F.v.M.). 



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