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Cercocarpus ledifolius, Nuttall. 
California. Rises in favourable spots to a tree 40 feet high, with 
a stem diameter of 2^ feet. The wood is the hardest known in 
California. C. parvifolius is of lesser dimensions. 
Chaerophyllum bulbosum, Linng. 
Europe and Middle Asia. The root forms a kitchen vegetable. 
Several other species yield edible roots. 
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Chenopodium blitum, F. von Mueller. (Blitum virgatum, Linne). 
From South Europe to India, An annual herb, extensively in 
use there as a cultivated spinage-plant. The fruits furnish a red 
dye. The genus Blitum was reduced to chenopodium by the writer 
in Canids Giornale Botanico some years ago. C. capitatum 
( Blitum capitatum , L.) may not be really a distinct species C 
' Qmnoa, Willd., from Chili, deserves hardly recommendation for 
culture, though a nutritious spinage, it being apt to stray as a 
weed into cultivated fields. Some of these sorts of plants are 
useful to anglers, as attracting fish, when thrown into rivers or 
lakes. 
-fogalum pomeridianum, Kunth. 
California, frequent on the mountains. This lily-like plant 
attams a height of 8 feet. The heavy bulb is covered with 
many coatings, consisting of fibres, which are used for cushions 
mattresses etc.; large contracts are entered into for the supply 
of this material on a very extensive scale (Professor Bolander). 
he inner part of the bulb serves as a substitute for soap, and it 
might be tried whether it can be utilized for technological 
purposes like the root of Saponaria. 
Chloroxylon Swietenia, Candolle. 
The Satin wood. Mountains of India. Like the allied Flin- 
dersms, possibly this tree would prove hardy here in naturally 
sheltered places, the cognate Cedrda Taona advancing in East 
Australia southward to the 36th degree. A resin, valuable for 
varnishes, exudes from the stem and branches. 
Chrysanthemum roseum, Adam. 
South-West Asia. This perennial herewith C. carneum, yields 
the Persian insect powder. 
Cinna arundlnacea, Linne. 
North America. There recorded as a good fodder grass • neren 
mal, somewhat sweet-scented. Blyttm maveolem (Fries) is 
according to Dr. Asa Gray, a variety with pendant flowers. 
