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SELECT PLANTS READILY ELIGIBLE 



Arundinaria macrosperma, Micliaux. 



Southern States of North America, — particularly on the 

 Missisippi. This Bamboo-like reed forms there the cane- 

 brakes. It requires to be replanted after flowering in the 

 course of years. Height 20 feet. 



Arundo Ampelodesmos, Cpillo. 



South Europe, North Africa. Almost as large as A. 

 Gynerium. The tough flower-stems and leaves readily avail- 

 able for tying. 



Arundo conspicua, G. Forster. 



New Zealand and Chatham Islands. Although not strictly 

 an industrial plant, it is mentioned here as important for 

 scenic efiect, flowering before the still grander A. Sellowiana 

 comes in bloom. 



Arundo Donax, Linne. 



The tall evergreen lasting Bamboo-reed of South Europe and 

 North Africa. It is one of the most important plants of its 

 class for quickly producing a peculiar scenic efiect in pic- 

 turesque plantations, also for intercepting at once the view to 

 unsightly objects, and for giving early shelter. The canes can 

 be used for fishing-rods. 



Arundo Karka, Roxburgh. 



India, China, Japan. The Durma mats are made of the 

 split stems of this tall reed. 



Arundo Pliniana, Turra. 



On the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas. A smaller plant 

 than A. Donax, with more slender stems and narrower leaves, 

 but similarly evergreen, and resembling the Donax reed also 

 in its roots. 



Arundo saccharoides, Grisebach. {Gynerium saccharoides, 

 Humboldt). 



Northern parts of South America. This species is here not 

 yet introduced; but it is likely to prove hardy. Like the 

 following, it is conspicuously magnificent. 



Arundo Sellowiana, Schultes. (Arundo diocia, Spreng. non 

 Louriero. Gynerium argenteum, Nees.) 

 The Pampas Grass of Uruguay, Paraguay and the La Plata 

 State. A grand autumnal flowering reed, with gorgeous 

 feathery panicles. As an industrial plant it deserves here a 

 place, because paper can be prepared from its leaves. 



Asparagus acutifolius, Linne. 



In all the countries around the Mediterranean Sea, also in 

 the Canary Islands. Although a"shrubby AsjDaragus, yet the 

 root-shoots, according to Dr. Heldreich, are collected in 



