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A CLUMP OF HAKE PLANTS. 



mint (as Meniha Australis, M. satureioides, M. grandiflora, and J\I. 

 gracilis), from which an essential oil is extracted for use in the 

 manufacture of perfumes ; the Sida pulchella and Lavatera plebeia, 

 of which stout fibre or solid thread is made, the fibres of Australian 

 flax (Linum marginale) being adapted to the same pin-pose. The 



VEGETABLE LIFE IN VICTORIA. 



1. Rosea gracilis (Arundo conspicua). 



2. Astelia Banksii 



3. Hectia Pitcairnisefolia. 



4. Xanthorrhcea arborea. 



Restias, a curious rush-like order of endogens, also inhabit these 

 moist places : as do the Kingias, very common grasses ; the Astelia 

 Banksii, a species of Liliacese, with grass-formed leaves and a strong 

 tenacious stem ; and the Xerotes longifolia. The Nardoo (Narsllia 

 macropus, or, as it is sometimes called, N. salvatrix], whose spores 

 and spore-cases are pounded by the native Australians and made into 



