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Arundo Ssllowiftna, Schultes. (A.rundo dioica, Spreng. non 
Louriero. Gynerium argenteum, ISTees.) 
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 olRcinalis, L. 
Europe, North Africa, North Asia. The well-known As- 
paragus plant, which, if naturalized on our coast, would aid 
in binding the sand. The foliage contains Inosit-Sugar ; the 
shoots contain Asparagiu, 
Astragalus Cephalonicus, Eischer. {A. aristatus, Sibthorp.) 
Cephalonia. A small shrub, yielding a good tragacanth ; 
and so probably, also, the true A. aristatus of I’Heritier is 
producing it. 
Artragalus Creticus, La March. 
Candia and Greece. A small bush, exuding the ordinary 
vermicular Tragacanth. The pale is preferable to the brown 
sort. 
Astragalus gummifer, La Billard. 
Syria and Persia. This shrub also yields a good kind of 
Tragacanth. 
Astragalus strabiliferus, Eoyle. 
Asiatic Turkey. The brown Tragacanth is collected from 
this species. 
Astragalus verus, Olivier. 
Asiatic Turkey and Persia. This shrub furnishes the 
Takalor or Smyrna Tragacanth, or it is derived from an 
allied species. 
Atriplex hortensis, L. 
North and Middle Asia. The Arroche. An annual Spinage 
plant. 
Atropa Belladonna, L. 
The Deadly Nightshade. South and Middle Europe and 
Western Asia. A most important perennial medicinal herb. 
