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Cycas revoluta, Thunberg. 



The Japan Fern-Palm. The trunk attains in age a height of 

 about six feet, and is rich in sago-like starch. The slow- 

 growth of this plant renders it to us valuable for no other 

 purpose than scenic decorative culture ; it endures the climate 

 of Melbourne without protection. Cycas angulata, E.. Br., 

 may also prove hardy, and would prove a noble horticultural 

 acquisition, as it is the most gigantic of all Cycadese, attain- 

 ing a height of 70 feet in troj^ical East Australia. Like the 

 Zamia stems also the trunks of Cycas admit of translocation 

 even at an advanced age. 



Cymopterus glomeratus, Candolle. 



Western States of North America. Boot edible (Dr. 

 Kosenthal). 



Cynara Cardunculus, Linne. 



The Cardoon. Mediterranean regions. A perennial herb. 

 The bleached leaf- stalks serve as esculents. 



Cynara Scolymus, Linne. 



The Artichoke. South Europe and North Africa. The 

 receptacles and the base of the flower scales well-known as 

 a vegetable. The plant is perennial and here merely men- 

 tioned as entitled to extended culture in grouping this with 

 other stately plants. Several other species are worthy of 

 cultivation. 



Cynodon Dactylon, Persoon.* 



Widely dispersed over the warmer parts of the globe, thus 

 as indigenous reaching the northern parts of our colony. 

 An important grass for covering bare barren land, or binding 

 drift-sand, or keeping together the soil of abrupt declivities, 

 or consolidating earth-banks against floods. It is not 

 without value as a pasture-grass, resists extreme drought, 

 and may become of great importance to many desert tracts. 

 The dispersion is best effected by the cree^^ing rooting stems, 

 cut into short pieces ; each of these takes root readily. In 

 arable land this grass, when once established, cannot easily 

 be subdued. The stems and roots are used in Italy for 

 preparing there the Mellago graminis. Roxburgh already 

 declared this grass to be by far the most common and useful 

 of India, that it flowers all the year, and that it forms 

 three-fourths of the food of the cows and horses there. 



Cynosurus cristatus, Linne. 



The Crested Dogstail-Grass. Europe, North Africa, West 

 Asia. A perennial grass, particularly valuable as withstand- 

 ing drought, the roots penetrating to considerable depth. 

 The stems can also be used for bonnet plaiting. Though 



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