138 ON SALT-BUSH AND NATIVE FODDER PLANTS 
No. 7. saab eg numularia, Old man salt-bush. 
= : 
Carbohyirates jibe = yas ant ve 42°85 
Woody f fibre 7°24 
Ash CO, 31°28 
100°00 
Wook parts of peas . ev. ce ... 10 per cent. 
Edible ss ia “ ... 90 per cent, 
Ash snalysi On ash. On plant. 
Potash ... oa = v. =15°69 4:91 
Soda aN sd vt ieee Oe 9-25 
Chloride of sodium... sts as ae 9°47 
Lime... oe ae ee i. Ooo 271 
Magnesia 6°77 212 
¢ oxi 64 20 
commie oxide 3°17 
sphoric ,, ... dpe wie ea AE 1:28 
Sil soluble... cy eh ee ipl 
100-00 3128 
No. 8. Chenolea bicornis. Cotton-bush. 
Casbohydrates wey ies ay bes ... 56°03 
Albummoids 02°50" 3, 2p PUP ee 
Woody fibre ne 
Ash CO, Cader 
100°00 
Nitrogen i lhe ronan 
Woody parts of plant... . — ... 6 per cent. 
Edible ie P ee 
ren aes sis. On ash. On plant. 
Potash ... aera . WB 1731 
. 20°17 1-412 
Chloride of sodium «> 82 ‘377 
% 1 94°33 1-703 
Magnesi ic- Oe - 
Ferric 0 nm ee ba 
Sulphuric oxide . 8 381 
Phosphoric ,, «B44 = 
Silica soluble -° ae pote 
10000 7000 
ae 
No. 4 contained or gave up to ether more ore chlorophyll i 
of the others ; the quantity af this was generally small, a 
from the colour of the solution. ee 
By an unfortunate mistake the whole of the original 9 other 
of No. 6 6 (the blue-bush) was incinerated. In wrt writing hr 
