MATAGOWRY
Sir,—l wonder if any of your backcountry readers or botanists can tell me it the large'variety of matagowry found in the high country is a nitro-gen-gathering plant like the alder? Sheep take refuge in patches of matagowry in bad weather, so I always put down the beautiful green grass one finds there to sheep droppings. While digging out some matagowry roots, however. I found they were a mass of fine tendrils smothered with typical nitrogen nodules. Since then I have made inquiries among a lot. of back-country people, but find no-one who has noticed it before. I would be most interested to find this fact corroborated. —Yours, etc., EREWHON. May 27. 1953.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27051, 28 May 1953, Page 12
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