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Australian Grasses and Pasture Plants With Notes on Native Fodder Shrubs and Tner FRED TURNER, F. L. s.. F. R. H. s.. Author of the following Government Publioations Illustrated and Descriptive -The Grasses of New South Wales Indigenous Forage Plants of Australia non-grasser Australian Grasses West Australian Grasses West Australian Salsolaceous Plants New Commercial Cropr for New South Wales Supposed Poiwnous Plants of New South Wales Suspected Poisonous Plants of West Australia Noxious Introduced Weeds of New South Wales An Ecological Study of One Hundred Species of Queensland Grasses Auckland. Christchurch. Dunedin, and Wellington, N. Z., and London . write an original, reliable, and popular work on the important subject of Australian Grasses and Pasture Plants for the information of stock-owners and all those settled upon the land in this great southern continent is a serious and onerous undertaking, more especially when the space is limited to a certain number of pages. Although the matter contained in this little volume is concisely written accuracy has not been sacrificed, for the information is based upon my own scientific and practical experience and long observation of the economic value of some of the best and most widely distributed grasses and forage plants growing in Australian pastures. The matter contained in the following pages may be regarded as a sequel to those illustrated and descriptive larger and more colnprehensive works on Australian Grasses and Forage Plants, which I wrote under instructions from the Governments of Sew South Ilale, Queensland, and West Australia.
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