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  2. A National Show in Victoria.

    THE National Show of 1877 is now an event of the past, and I take the first opportunity to furnish my friends in Queensland with a few particulars of its leading features. I will not ...

    Article : 2,197 words
  3. Notes on the Esculent and Economic Plants of Northern Queensland.

    A DEADLY poison. Common on the banks of all the rivers in the Etheridge district, where it has no doubt robbed many a man of his horse. It attains a height of from 4 to 8 feet, and may ...

    Article : 1,123 words
  4. PLUMBAGINEÆ

    A shrub attaining several feet, the long weak branches half-climbing glabrous, all except the inflorescence, which is covered with stiff glandular viscid hairs. Flowers white. A pretty ...

    Article : 111 words
  5. MALVACEÆ

    A handsome shrubby species found on the Etheridge by me in 1876. Flowers very bright pink, in axillary cymes, almost sessile. Worth growing in shrubberies. Specimen and seeds ...

    Article : 48 words
  6. ZYGOPHYLLEÆ.

    A prostrate annual or biennial, silky hairy stems, often 4 to 6 feet in length, sending out lateral branches at intervals. Flowers ½ to 1 inch in diameter. Rich yellow. Cocci hard, , ...

    Article : 74 words
  7. MELASTOMACEÆ.

    A shrub of 10 feet, with hairs generally scale like and rigid on the branches, and strigose on the upper side of the leaves, which are three nerved, having a fourth intra-marginal one, which is ...

    Article : 148 words
  8. APOCYNEÆ.

    An erect shrub of 8 to 4 feet, glabrous, armed with opposite spines, which are short and rigid. Leaves ovate, or often the lower ones almost orbicular, obtuse, the bracts often acute. ...

    Article : 360 words
  9. PASSIFLOREÆ.

    A robust climber, bearing large showy scarlet flowers. Fruit 1½ inch in diameter'; eatable (fide wild gins). Found growing in scrubs on the Valley of Lagoons. A very ornamental plant, ...

    Article : 80 words
  10. EURHORBIACEÆ.

    I have not the volume of the Flor. Austr., so cannot mention authorities. A very handsome dioecious shrub, of from 4 to 6 feet. Has a very bushy habit, which adds ...

    Article : 281 words
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