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Identifier: comprehensivecat00bail (find matches)
Title: Comprehensive catalogue of Queensland plants, both indigenous and naturalised. To which are added, where known, the aboriginal and other vernacular names; with numerous illustrations, and copious notes on the properties, features, &c., of the plants
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, Frederick Manson, 1827-1915
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: Brisbane, A. J. Cumming, government printer
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library
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372. Teucrium ajugaceum, Bail, et F. v. M. XCVII. PLANTAGINEiE.—XCVIII. NYCTAGINEyE. 395
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39S XCVII. PLANTAGINE.E.—XCIX. ILLECEBRACE^. Anomalous Order.Order XCVII.—PLANTAGINEiE. Plan (ago, Linn. *major, Linn.—Plantain of Europe. Seeds much in favourfor bird-seed, and both leaves and seeds said to be usedin India for dysentery. Our native kinds equally useful. *lanceolata, Linn.—Rib-grass of Europe. debilis, R. Br. varia, R.Br. (Fig. 373.) Subclass III—MONOCHLAMYDE^E.Series L—CURVEMBRYEiE. Order XCVIIL—NYCTAGINEJE. Tribe I.—Mirabilie/E. *Mirabilis, Linn.—Fruit a Diclesium. jalapa, Linn.—Marvel of Peru or Four-oclock. TropicalAmerica.Boerhaavia, Linn. diffusa, Linn. — Hogweed. Koo-joo and Goitcho ofCloncurry and A-mi of Batavia River natives. Maybe used as an expectorant in cases of asthma,repanda, Willd. (Fig. 374.) Tribe II.—Pisonie^e. Pisonia, Linn.-—The sticky fruits of plants of this genus oftencatch and cause the death of a large number of smallbirds, insects, &c, in a similar manner to bird-lime. aculeata, Linn. inermis, Forst. Brunoniana
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