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THIS little book is excellently produced and illustrated. Its main purpose is to acquaint wool appraisers with the common fruits and other parts of plants which become caught up in the fleece of sheep in New South Wales, and it has a map to show from which parts of the State the common 'burrs' of wool come. It is surprising, considering the richness of the New South Wales flora, that so few species of plants contaminate wool ; the book describes only forty-five species, and many of these are unimportant.
Vegetable Matter in the New South Wales Wool Clip
By E. J. Milthorpe. Pp. vii + 60. (Sydney: Central Wool Committee Testing House, 1943.) 21s.
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ASHBY, E. Vegetable Matter in the New South Wales Wool Clip. Nature 157, 209 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157209d0
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