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90850. CASSIA ARTEMISIOIDES . Wormwood senna. From New South Wales, Australia. 

 Presented by the Director, Botanic Gardens. Sydney. An erect bushy shrub covered 

 with silky white tomentum. The leaves are made up of 3 to 6 pairs of linear-terete 

 leaflets 1 inch long, and the yellow flowers are in short dense racemes. It is 

 native to Australia. For trial in the warmer parts of California and the Gulf region. 

 (Chico, Calif.) 



73408. CASSINIA FULVIDA . Asteraceae. From England. Presented by the late Hon. 

 Vicary Gibbs, Aldenham House Gardens, Elstree, Herts. An ornamental heath-like shrub 

 having leaves with a rusty tomentum on the lower surface. The white flowers are in 

 corymbs. Native to New Zealand. For trial from Philadelphia southward and on the 

 Pacific coast. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



73410. CASSINIA VAUVILLIERSII . From England. Presented by the late Hon. Vicary 

 Gibbs,. Aldenham House Gardens, Elstree, Herts. An erect compact shrub, 6 to 10 

 feet high, with small narrow leathery leaves half an inch long, having the lower 

 surface covered with a silvery tomentum. The white flowers are in dense terminal 

 corymbs. Native to New Zealand. For trial in California and the less humid parts 

 of the Gulf region. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



95376. CASUARINA LUEHMANNI . Bull oak. From Australia. Presented by the Senior 

 Plant Introduction Officer, Commonwealth Forestry Bureau, Canberra. A tree 80 to 

 100 feet high, with light-colored branchlets and flattened cones half an inch in 

 diameter. The wood is hard and close-grained. For trial in the warmer parts of 

 California and the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 



90141. CELASTRUS ARTICULATUS . Oriental bittersweet. From the mountain region 

 near Dairen, Manchuria. Collected by P. H. Dorsett and 7/. J. Morse, agricultural 

 explorers. Bureau of Plant Industry. A climbing shrub with branches to 30 feet 

 long; leaves generally suborbicular with crenate margin. The abundant fruits 

 are at first green and pea shaped, but in late autumn the valves open and turn back 

 to reveal their golden-yellow inner surface and the shining scarlet arils contain- 

 ing the seeds within. The open fruits persist for two months. For trial from 

 Massachusetts and northern Ohio southward to the Gulf and on the Pacific coast. 

 (Glenn Dale, Md. ) 



90658. CELASTRUS ARTICULATUS. Oriental bittersweet. From Manchuria. Collected 

 by P. H. Dorsett and W. J. Morse, agricultural explorers. Bureau of Plant Industry. 

 Same description as for F. P. I. No. 90141. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



103772. CELASTRUS ARTICULATUS. Oriental bittersweet. From near Nankou, China. 

 Collected by Dorsett and Morse, agricultural explorers. Bureau of Plant Industry. 

 Same description as for F. P. I. No. 90141. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



