To my English reader I may say that these shrubs, or plants, or bushes are the most valuable fodder plants for stock known in Australia; they are varieties of the atriplex family of plants, and whenever I can record meeting them, I do it with the greatest satisfaction.
"Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration Australia Twice Traversed. The Romance Of Exploration, Being A Narrative Compiled From The Journals Of Five Exploring Expeditions Into And Through Central South Australia, And Western Australia, From 1"
Ernest Giles
The same barren plains, covered sparingly with salsolae and atriplex, characterised this distant part of the interior; and sandy ridges covered with stunted cypress trees, acaciae, hakeae, and other similar shrubs, proved to me that the productions of it were as unchanged as the soil.
"Expedition into Central Australia"
Charles Sturt
We traversed plains covered with atriplex and rhagodiae, in the midst of which there were large bare patches of red clay.
"Expedition into Central Australia"
Charles Sturt