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Example sentences for "salsolaceous"

Lexicographically close words:
saloonkeeper; saloons; salpinia; salsa; salsify; salsolae; salt; saltatory; saltbush; saltcellar
  1. A salsolaceous plant growing in the form of a ball several feet high.

  2. The salsolaceous plants, so long the only vegetation we have seen, are gone.

  3. They were covered with salsolaceous plants, without a blade of grass; and their soil was generally a red sandy loam.

  4. The ground had a good covering of grass upon it, and there were few of the salsolaceous plants, so abundant on the western plains, to be found.

  5. Acacia pendula now made its appearance on several plains beyond the river deposits, as well as that salsolaceous class of plants, among which the schlerolina and rhagodia are so remarkable.

  6. They were covered with the salsolaceous class of plants, so common in the interior, in a red sandy soil, and were as even as a bowling green.

  7. A few small salsolaceous plants are to be found on some of the flats, but they are scarcely worth mentioning.

  8. It consists chiefly of mud flats, covered with polygonum bushes, box timber, and a few salsolaceous plants, of inferior quality.

  9. The ground is, however, sound and well clothed with grass and salsolaceous plants.

  10. There are two shrubs palpably salt, and, perhaps, there is something salsolaceous in the herbage also on which cattle thrive so well; and the open plains and muddy waterholes are their delight.

  11. We next traversed a belt of firm blue clay, on which a salsolaceous bush appeared to be the chief vegetation; and, between it and the river, was another belt of sand a mile broad, on which grew a scrub of rosewood acacia.

  12. We had encamped on a flat of clay, on which salsolaceous bushes, such as grew on similar plains on the Bogan, had been growing, but were then all withered from drought.

  13. The productions on the ground were of a salsolaceous kind, although it was so much elevated above the plains, but amongst them there was not any mesembryanthemum.

  14. The country we now passed through was of a salsolaceous character, like a low barren sea coast.

  15. In the near ground to the south-east, the surface of the country was of fine white sand, partly covered with salsolaceous plants, with small fragments of stone, and patches of more grassy land.

  16. The ridges were covered with spinifex, through which we found it difficult to force a way, and the flats with salsolaceous productions alone.

  17. From this valley we passed into a plain, in which various kinds of salsolaceous productions were growing round shallow salty basins.

  18. A good deal of grass was growing on them in widely distributed tufts, but mixed with salsolaceous plants.

  19. Beyond it, on both sides, were barren stony plains, on which salsolaceous plants alone grew.

  20. The pine ridges closed upon each other once more, and the flats became covered with salsolaceous plants.

  21. There was little, if any grass to be seen; but the mesembryanthemum reappeared upon it, with other salsolaceous plants.

  22. The vegetation presents the usual appearance of salsolaceous plants thinly scattered over the surface, with here and there a stunted growth of Arman or Acacia.

  23. To this succeeded a barren flat of silt and sand, white with salt and ragged with salsolaceous stubble, reeking with heat, and covered with old vegetation.

  24. The lake is girded with an outer ridge of sand, covered with salsolaceous plants, and with saline crusts, shewing above the ground at intervals.

  25. It grows upon a low creeping tap-rooted plant, of a salsolaceous character, found in the alluvial flats of the Murray, among the polygonum brushes, and in many other places.

  26. There were neither trees nor shrubs, nor grass, nor vegetation of any kind except salsolaceous plants, and these every where abounded.

  27. These hollows or flats were covered with salsolaceous plants and samphire, and appeared once to have been salt swamps.

  28. It also had several kinds of salsolaceous bushes upon it; these furnish excellent fodder plants for all herbivorous animals.

  29. They were in many parts covered with salsolaceous plants, but I found also a kind of grass which I had not previously noticed; and a curious woolly plant with two-spined fruit, belonging to the genus Sclerolaena of Brown.

  30. Instead of salsolaceous deserts and mesenbryanthemum we now found a variety of everything most interesting in a newly discovered country.

  31. Both sheets of water, like that of Waljeers, were surrounded by a ridge of rising ground consisting of the red earth of the dry plains, and it was covered with the salsolaceous shrubs peculiar to them.

  32. The plains were immense, and though not richly grassed were covered with the best kinds of salsolaceous herbage, known to bushmen as affording better and healthier food for stock than the more enticing-looking green sward.

  33. The gray tufted grasses and salsolaceous bushes, uncropped by stock, remained nutritive and uninjured year after rainless year in that strange Australian desert.

  34. We travelled over sandy soil, but with little grass, meeting frequently with salt lagoons, surrounded by various salsolaceous plants.

  35. Steady stocking and an occasional dry season had somewhat modified the standard of the nutritive grasses and salsolaceous plants, at this point advantageously mingled.

  36. Bare patches of red sandy loam between the salsolaceous plants did not lead the early explorers to consider it first-rate pasturage.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "salsolaceous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.