208 INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN FORAGE PLANTS. 



Found over the greater part of the saline desert-interior of 

 Australia, reaching the south and west coasts. A dwarf bush, 

 with its frequent companion A. holocarpum, F.v.M., among the 

 very best for salt-bush pasture. (Mueller.) 



15. Atriplex nummularia, Lindley, B. FL, v., 170. N. O. 



Chenopodiaceas. " Old-man Salt-bush, ; ' or " Cabbage Salt- 

 bush." Found in all the Colonies except Western Australia 

 and Tasmania. 



One of the tallest and most fattening pastoral salt-bushes ; also 

 highly recommended for cultivation as natural plants by close 

 occupation of the sheep and cattle runs, have largely disappeared, 

 and this useful bush is not found in many parts of Australia. 

 Sheep and cattle depastured on salt-bush country are said to 

 remain free of fluke and get cured of Diastoma disease and of 

 other allied ailments. (Mueller.) 



An analysis by Mr. W. A. Dixon will be found Proc. Royal 

 Society, F.S.W., 1880, p. 133. 



16. Atriplex semibaccata, R. Brown, B. FL, v., 175. N.O. 



Chenopodiacea?. A " Salt-bush." Found in all the Colonies 

 except Tasmania. 



A perennial herb much liked by sheep. 



17. Atriplex spongiosa, F.v.M., B. FL, v., 179. Syn. : A. 



semibaccata. Mog., non R. Br. N.O. Chenopodiaceae. Found 

 through a great part of Central Australia, extending to the 

 "West Coast. 



A useful salt-bush for culture. 



18. Atriplex vesicaria, Reward, B. FL, v., 172. N. O. 



Chenopodiaceas. A " Salt-bush." Found in the interior of 

 South-Eastern Australia, also in Central Australia and 

 Western Australia. 



Perhaps the most fattening and most relished of all the dwarf 

 salt-bushes of Australia, holding out in the utmost extremes of 

 drought, and scorched even by the hottest winds. Its vast 

 abundance over extensive salt-bush plains of the Australian 

 interior, to the exclusion of almost every other bush except 

 A. halimoides, indicates the facility with which this species 

 disseminates itself. (Mueller.) 



19. Avicennia officinalis, Linn., B. FL, v., 69. Syn. : A. 



tomentosa, Jacq. N. O. Verbenacese. A " Mangrove " or 

 " White Mangrove." The " Tchoonchee" of some Queensland 



