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Cytisus stenopetalus Christ., a shrub of a highly ornamental character, bearing a 
profusion of yellow flowers. The shrub is esteemed as a fodder plant in the Canaries. 
Cytisus pallidus Poir., with white flowers, less showy, and with less fodder-value 
than the preceding. 
Genista scoparia Lam. (Scotch Broom). A well-known plant for sandy land. 
Ulex europaeus (Furze). Very valuable as a sand-binder, and its thorniness is a 
positive advantage in the early stages of securing plant-cover. 
Myrica cordifolia L., M. serrata Lam. and M. quercifolia L., all shrubs from 
South Africa, have been recommended for arresting sand. They are propagated by 
seeds or cuttings. 
M. cerifera L., the " Wax Myrtle " or " Bay-berry," from the sandy sea-coast of 
eastern North America, is used for a similar purpose, and the fruits of all are boiled in 
water in order to collect the excellent wax with which they are covered. 
Prunus maritima Wagenheim, the " Beach-plum " of eastern North America. 
A shrubby species recommended for covering coast sands. 
Acanihosicyos horrida Welwitsch, the " Narra." This is a native of South 
African desert sands in the neighbourhood of Walfisch Bay, and it is a most remarkable 
plant. An account of its nutritive value reads like a romance. 
Mueller has a note upon it in his " Select extra-tropical plants." Mr. von Gerard, 
the Resident Magistrate of Walfisch Bay, has an article in the South African Agricultural 
Journal for January, 1912, p. 102, with an illustration of the thorny plant. It belongs 
to the Pumpkin family, and is practically the whole of the food of the inhabitants of the 
territory, which consists of nothing but shifting sand-dunes. If this plant could be 
acclimatised on our coastal dunes it could be transferred to our inland dunes. The 
fruit is the size of a small water melon, containing numerous pits. 
See also an article on Walfisch Bay which contains an account of the plant by 
Dr. Macdonald, in " The Nineteenth Century and After," for September, 1914. 
Small Plants (non grasses). 
Mesembryanthemum cequilaterale Haw. " Pigs' Faces." 
Lippia nodiflora Linn. A plant belonging to the Verbena family, which forms 
a mat in nearly pure sand. Well established in New South Wales. 
Lippia repens is a smaller plant than the preceding, which is being tried in 
New South Wales in various localities to cover bare patches in which no 
grass will grow, and so give the appearance of a coarse lawn. 
This list can be indefinitely extended. 
There is an excellent paper entitled " Crops used in the reclamation of alkali 
lands in Egypt," by Thomas H. Kearney, Year-book of Agriculture, U.S.A., 1902, p. 573. 
It is based on a personal visit. 
